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Unread 08-14-2025, 06:15 AM   #1
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Gotta love those early smallbores! Are the barrels Krupp or Chromox?
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What a wonderful 16. I vacillate between CE a XE engraving as my Fox favorite. After looking this one over, I’d say the XE.

What will you use it for—Texas wild Bobs, I hope.
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What a wonderful 16. I vacillate between CE a XE engraving as my Fox favorite. After looking this one over, I’d say the XE.

What will you use it for—Texas wild Bobs, I hope.
My guess is that beautiful Fox is going to get to share a short boat ride with Nellie and get a chance to harvest a duck or 2 this fall.
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What a wonderful 16. I vacillate between CE a XE engraving as my Fox favorite. After looking this one over, I’d say the XE.

What will you use it for—Texas wild Bobs, I hope.
The sweet spot for American doubles for me are the Fox XE's and Parker BH's prior to WW!.
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Congrats on another fine small bore. I hope you bring it to Georgia in January.
I have some 3/4 oz RST 16's along, perfect for Quail and an XE 16
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Very nice Craig! I was drawn to the eschetuen, I think i blew the spelling, but is this a snap on forend ejector like the Sterlingworth? I've never seen one on graded Foxes, except for Sterly customs such as Phil Carr's 20.
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Very nice Craig! I was drawn to the eschetuen, I think i blew the spelling, but is this a snap on forend ejector like the Sterlingworth? I've never seen one on graded Foxes, except for Sterly customs such as Phil Carr's 20.
My Fox A grade 20ga has the snap off forend; I don’t know what years they were made that way.
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My Fox A grade 20ga has the snap off forend; I don’t know what years they were made that way.
The snap on Kremer designed forend was used from about 1912 to 1915 on the graded Fox small bores.
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In the graded 20-gauge guns I've recorded snap-on/-off forearms through about the first 700. In graded 16-gauge guns I haven't recorded any guns in the 3005xx and 3006xx range and by the 3007xx range I see Deeley latches. Actually 300590 has a Deeley latch but it has been so completely CSMC'd that I don't count it.

Not to say I haven't recorded a handful of Deeley latches in these ranges.
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Craig, stunning XE w/lovely barrels!! Man Oh Man!!
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