No FOX News here this morning!

[Harry Collins]

We are not receiving FOX News this morning! I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same?

Harry

[Hammer Gun]

Harry, It has to be ABC, NBC< CBS, doing it. just kidding but it is a scary thought, who knows it may be censored one day! Gary

[Hammer Gun]

Harry, have you heard any results from the RIA auction wonder who got the 28ga AH, I was succcesful on lot 3445 12ga hammer gun in original case with a box of shells do not know what kind of shells the folks at RIA would not open them. Gary

[Old and Reliable]

In the recent DU magazine- nice article by Gary Koehler on the famed Nash Buckingham/Burt Becker HE Fox 12- aka- "Bo Whoop" going to join his "Beckered-Brother" the second Becker HE once owned by "Mistah Nash" at the DU museum in Memphis-

Thanks to the the son of Nash's closest friend, the late Hal Bowen Howard, we can see this storied gun soon- I am wondering about the weight of this cannon, as Gary wrote it as weighing 12 lbs. I once owned a "shadytreed gunsmithed" HE 12 with 32" Chromox barrels and it weighed just a tad under 10 lbs.

If memory serves, it had the ill-advised "barrels not guaranteed" stamping on the flats, I have no way of knowing if it had been "Beckered" or not- but it would put 90% of a Federal paper Champion 7.5 shot 1 & 1/8 oz. Trap load into a 36" dia. circle at 40 measured yards- and 95% of that same load from the left barrel. What a cannon!!

[J.B. Books]

Fox news still looks to be available:

http://foxcollectors.com/My%20Forum/...wforum.php?f=2

[Autumn Daze]

Here's some Fox new's



To: The Matrons of Meriden

It is with heavy hearts that we extend our deepest, sincerest condolences, on your recent LOSS, in NC.
To bear such a terrible burden is torment enough, to do it two years in a row, must be, quite frankly, insuperable.
To that end, we offer a slightly differnt cant, to J.K. Bleimaier's poetic verse....this one, from the South side of Philly!!!


When the smoke cleared down in Sanford
And all was said and done
The blood doth run from Cherry St.
Like the trenches of Verdun

Those sidelock boys from Fulton
They shot with so much class
Bad enough they beat you
They opened a can, marked PAHKAH WHOOP-ASS!!!!!

So you couldn't clinch The Challenge
And the Hammer guns went bust
If you can't win the NCAA's
You'd think the NIT, would be a MUST

Take solace in the memories
Of a time, long, long ago
When Arthur, J.R. and Freddie
Were takin' home the dough

So where is all this talent
That we've long heard much about
You shoot like walkin' wounded
Like the Infantry with GOUT

And now the Fox men await you
In a place called ADDIEVILLE
Where one thing is for certain....
We gonna take your 50 dollar bill!!!!!

THAT's the PHILLY way!!!!! See you in R.I. boyzzzzzzzz


c.c./ A.H. Fox
F.A. BarthmaierOn the whole....I'd rather be in Philadelphia

[RJ Jose]

Very nice , that wasn't composed on company time? ehe

[Dean Romig]

RJ, you'll have to ask those industrious AHFCA fellers over on the Fox forum. Some of 'em come sneakin' around here peekin' under our tentflaps tryin' to understand what ol' Ansley H. learned about Parker guns so's he could start his own little cottage industry... but there are no secrets here. It was done with pride, respect, love, perfectionism and soul and we're carring on that proud tradition of the Parker Gun.

[Old and Reliable]

I always thought that famous phrase was etched in granite on the headstone of the late-great William Claude Dunkerfield--Don't know if old W.C. ever shot a Fox, but he sure bagged a few in Hollywood- Mae West comes to mind--

Nice poem too. Nice to see some spirited rivalry between the Parkerisitas, the Smith-sonians and the old Foxists--Don't hear much about the LeFeverites and those fans of the guns from the famed Finger Lakes areas- no clays shooters amongst them perhaps??

I'm gonna hold my peace until after my first trip next month to the "Yooper" shoot-- I'm not a clays man- I'd like to see team shoots from the above gun groups on Columbaire pigeons- or a best "birds to box" shootout on doves in Argentina- each member of the team gets his pet double, 6 boxes of RSTs (150 shells) and a bird boy and a official scorer- best number of birds retrieved for the 150 shells by team total for the day wins the Cup and the Purse- hopefully a grey cloudy day with some gusty winds- That's a real wingshooting contest, IMO!!

[Autumn Daze]

The Lefever boy's will be shooting as a team at Hidden Hollow in June.