Fox Collectors

I have recorded several No. 4 & 5 NIDs with serial numbers that would indicate late 1920s but were made without cocking indicators. Here is a No. 4E 12-gauge 448880, slim forearm, regular rib -- 448880 10.jpg This gun also has a dog on each side instead of the normal duck & pheasant. Here is...

The "stippling" on the top of the breech was a feature of the NID after they dropped the cocking indicators. On a Field Grade -- 459707 06.jpg On a No. 2E -- 464842 06.jpeg Even though the No. 3 was dropped about the same time as the cocking indicators, this No. 3E Magnum-10 has the stippl...

Here is the 1909 CE-Grade Robt. was shooting back in 2005/6 --

There is a lot on Bill Mains and Jacqueline Favre engraving Knicks, including the serial numbers they did, in Frank Conley's book The American Single Barrel Trap Gun.

To Craig’s point I just received gun 262700 from Josh. It letters as a Sterlingworth Skeet and was shipped in 1936. This was a continuation of the upland and skeet gun with the exterior built as a Sterlingworth. In reading articles by Wyraz, Headrick and Noreen this appears there weren’t many built...

Dug two No. 4E NIDs out of the safe and nothing. What vintage is the gun that is signed?

Yes. Pictures please. Serial number 1251 would be a 1906 vintage gun. The early guns are stamped on the watertable -- "PAT'D AUG.1 1905 OTHER PATENTS PENDING" By serial number 494 the watertable is stamped with three patent dates -- "PAT'D AUG.1 1905 OCT.17.1905 - JAN.16.1906" So...

That description is about a bleak as it gets!!

I believe it is against the rules to post a link to items for sale in the open forum.

I have a drawer full. Slip-on & Lace-on Pads.JPG Galco pads in different sizes across the back for use on various guns I don't shoot all that often. Middle left the RedHead lace-on I've used on "Meat-in-the-Pot" for sixty years -- Sep 1970 Sage Grouse near Craig, Colorado.jpg cente...

Looks like a nice veteran that has seen service but still in nice shootable condition. What is the barrel length? Bit apprehensive about shooting today's shotshell loads through it, wonder if the stock could handle a high brass load. Progressive burning smokeless powder, high velocity loads were int...

Kevin introduced me to the Nimrod in Leesburg. I was sad when my Northern Virginia source for my favorite 2 1/2-inch 16- & 20-gauge shells moved to Florida.

I went to the early ones when they were run by Robt. Harris and held at Polson, Montana, at the south end of Flathead Lake. A few small displays but no dealer presence. 2005 -- 2005 Nimrod Classic 9.jpg 2005 Nimrod Classic 3 .jpg I haven't gotten an announcement for this year's event but perhaps I'v...

Thanks for the kind words. The booth is definitely a team effort and Kevin and Tom make it happen. Yesterday I saw something that was new to me. One of the visitors, Roy, brought in his 16 ga. Sterlingworth that had more than the usual amount of engraving. Kevin and Tom indicated that this wasn’t t...

I've recorded two Deeley and three F.T. Russell style forearm latches in the 3004xx serial number range

I see Lot #200 in the current Rock Island Auction is the Philadelphia Arms Co. A-Grade our long past friend, the author Ed Muderlak, use to own. https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/5032/200/early-philadelphia-arms-co-fox-a-grade-double-barrel-shotgun Ed & Nancy in Alaska years ago. ED &...