My Super-Fox weighs 8 3/4 pounds with the original 32-inch barrels and a shade over nine pounds with the 28-inch barrels. Balance is pretty near the same with either set.
After the 1962 hunting season, I was on the hunt for a double of my own. Finally by August 1963, I finally found the HE-Grade Super-Fox in a pawn shop in Tacoma. When I examined the gun it had non-original beavertail forearm wood on the 28-inch barrels. My Aunt and her husband were moving into a house they had bought a block away from our house and my Father made the deal that if I helped them with the move he would take my money and trade goods ($50, Model 50 12-gauge and Model 43 .22 Hornet) and go down to Tacoma and see if he could make a deal. When I got home from helping with the move, the Super-Fox as I'd seen it, the original forearm wood for the 28-inch barrels, and 2 1/2 boxes of pre WW-II Remington Arrow Express 3-inch 12-gauge shells with 1 5/8 ounces of #4 and #5 shot, were on the kitchen table. And, I owed my Father $40.
I didn't really know what I had, but a few years later when I was working for the Forest Service, I found a September 1955 issue of Outdoor Life which contained Nash Buckingham's article "Magnum Opus".
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