1934 Fox Sterlingworth

[Cold Spring]

Steve I added a thumbs up last night. Very very nice Sterly. I have a comment on the choking. Of course the gun could have been special ordered with most any choking constriction but that 6 point delta between the barrels is atypical at least ime. You might double check to verify the constrictions and to see if both have a taper right out to the muzzle. Most Savage guns have a taper-parallel-taper profile and that can of course be read with a bore mike. Thus a parallel section at the muzzle indicates a choke has probably been opened and if done from the muzzle end the barrel(s) could shoot off. But whatever - as you know that's great upland/birding combo.

[Steve Hodges]

Frank, thanks for your concern on my gun. I have a bore gauge and was under the impression that the length of choke taper was the tell tale proof of originality, not the difference between the left and right constriction. Incidentally, both barrels taper for 3 1/8 inches and do so all the way to the muzzle ( skeet's bore gauge ). I am aware and have heard about Fox guns being bored "cylinder" and actually have .004-.007 thousandths constriction so perhaps that's what I have here. Yeah, I think this one is right as rain.

[Researcher]

From the addition of the Sterlingworth to the A.H. Fox Gun Co. catalogue in 1911 --





to the last Savage Arms Corp. Fox catalogue in 1942, the chokes given for the 26-inch barrel guns (Sterlingworth Brush) was cylinder right, modified left. That said, all of them in my collection have anywhere from .009" to .013" choke in the right barrel.