Makes me cry!!

[Mike of the Mountain]

You remember that HE Fox that was on an auction site a year or two ago? It was covered with than coating of bright red rust. It cleaned up beautifully and worked out to be a steal for the new owner.

[Mills]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

You remember that HE Fox that was on an auction site a year or two ago? It was covered with than coating of bright red rust. It cleaned up beautifully and worked out to be a steal for the new owner.

That guy was lucky

[John Davis]

It’s a gun worthy of a complete restoration, dollars be damned. There was a time when I would probably have taken this project on. Alas, my gun interests are focused elsewhere these days. So I dodged that bullet.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

You remember that HE Fox that was on an auction site a year or two ago? It was covered with than coating of bright red rust. It cleaned up beautifully and worked out to be a steal for the new owner.

I went to that gunshop in southern NH to look at it. I asked the owner if I could examine it and he couldn't figure why I drove over an hour to look at "that piece of rusted crap." He tole me that he told the woman who brought it in he would be surprised if he could get $300 for it. I assured him it would fetch well over $7,000 and he guffawed at that absurd figure, that he'd been around guns all his life and knew better than to even think it would sell for even close to that much. I took a bunch of 'before' pics. It had stood in a fieldstone cellar of a house on the coast in Swampscott, MA for almost fifty years. That humid salt air spread a rust powder all over it.

[Jeff Wemmer]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I went to that gunshop in southern NH to look at it. I asked the owner if I could examine it and he couldn't figure why I drove over an hour to look at "that piece of rusted crap." He tole me that he told the woman who brought it in he would be surprised if he could get $300 for it. I assured him it would fetch well over $7,000 and he guffawed at that absurd figure, that he'd been around guns all his life and knew better than to even think it would sell for even close to that much. I took a bunch of 'before' pics. It had stood in a fieldstone cellar of a house on the coast in Swampscott, MA for almost fifty years. That humid salt air spread a rust powder all over it.

Dean,

Any report on the condition of the barrels? Ribs tight, decent bores, walls hollowed-out to "beer can" thick, oops, thinness?

Needs 7-8K worth of resto work (to include a new stock) to make it shootable - Would be a fun vintage clays gun which is why I'm chasing it.

Thanks for any additional info!

JW