Fox single trigger

Jerry Andrews · 03-06-2011, 07:32 PM

Anyone have any experience with the Fox single trigger? I know I'm on the Parker forum but a lot of guys on here own both, just wondered. I have one that doubles under recoil. Held off the shoulder, it does not double. The stock is not the problem, I've checked it out completely. Plus, it won't double if you hold it in your hands and shoot it so the stock is not the problem, it's in the recoil. I've fixed several Fox triggers in the past, ( one last week in fact ) but this is a new problem to me all together. Jerry

Bruce Day · 03-06-2011, 08:47 PM

That's the Kautzky single trigger, and my grandmother was related to the Kautzky's by marriage. They were in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Joe sr and jr and Rudy, and sister were all trapshooting champions. The Kautzky's also invented the Lazy Ike fishing lure.

My old PHE came from the Kautzky store and Joseph sr handmade my father a combat knife which he carried in WWII the Pacific.

Old and Reliable · 03-06-2011, 08:53 PM

Bruce- did any of them shoot Parkers? AH Fox guns are fairly scarce around here, LC Smiths way more plentiful- have never seen a AH Fox double with a Kautsky single trigger, or a Miller trigger for that matter. Fine guns indeed.

Bill Bates · 03-06-2011, 09:03 PM

My wife's little 20 AHE with a single trigger has never had any problems; so, I'm not going to be much help. Most of the problems oh heard of have been stock issues so again not much help if that isn't the issue.

todd allen · 03-06-2011, 09:40 PM

Convert it to double triggers. Problem solved!

Researcher · 03-06-2011, 09:46 PM

Marie Kautzky is shown holding an L.C. Smith double (I think) and shooting a Parker Bros. single in Dick Baldwin's great book of trap shooting stories The Road to Yesterday. In an article on the Kautzky's in the Winter 1963 issue of The Iowan, Joe Sr is shown hold a Parker Bros. double and Marie her Parker Bros. single. We know that Joe Sr. had an AE-Grade Ansley H. Fox and that the A.H. Fox Gun Co. upgraded it to an XE-Grade.

Jerry Andrews · 03-06-2011, 10:10 PM

The customer has asked me to do that if I can't fix it, but my pride won't allow the converstion! I have an idea to try tomorrow. I think the spring that works the toggle piece that selects which barrel is being fired could be weak. Jerry

Bill Murphy · 03-06-2011, 10:30 PM

Joe ordered Parkers but then he was a gun dealer. Marie shot Parkers.

Big Friend Ten (BFT) · 03-07-2011, 06:53 AM

Jerry,

Contact Dan May of Classic Gunstocks who is registered on your website. Dan and company bought the rights to I believe the Miller single trigger. I may be wrong on the brand that he specializes in single triggers.

Mark

Jerry Andrews · 03-07-2011, 07:25 AM

I figured it out this morning already. The spring that activates the toggle for barrel selection was a bit weak, allowing the " jump " to the second barrel under recoil. I think a person almost has to specialize in triggers to diagnose these things! I can diagnose the Hunter One Trigger over the phone in almost all cases, but the Fox Kautsky trigger just doesn't malfunction, rarely I should say. Last time I popped off about that trigger I had two come in the shop in two days! Jerry