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Bucky,

I'm glad you figured out how to add pictures to your posts with some help from Tom. And thanks, for Tom too, for persisting and doing that.

Your pictures tell us a little more about your gun. I'll add a comment or two and I'm sure others will step in.

Looks like you have an early style A grade. That's gotta be darn near the last early A style made before they started doing the later style with heavier engraving.

Researcher/Dave Noreen will probably give us more info on when, and serial number, of the latest early style A grade he's recorded.

Nice straight grip with a repair. If a nice solid repair, take her out and shoot her. Do not shoot steel shot and keep your loads light, target loads.

30 inch barrels are probably choked Mod in right barrel and Full in the left barrel. Or both barrels could be Full choke.

And a decent, period correct, looking pad.

Could be a lot worse.

Jolly

That is a new high serial number for an early style A-Grade for my list. The earliest 12-gauge I've recorded with the Gough style engraving is 20601. The straight grip is a real plus, but the way it has been broken and epoxied back together is a downer.

Lenny: You gun is an early engraved style A with a straight stock. Check this link for more information: https://www.foxcollectors.com/fox-gun-g ... -directory. The gun is in nice shape except the very poorly repaired major crack in the wrist of the stock. Because of it's better than average condition, if it were mine I would have a stock specialist repair the crack. In many cases after a proper repair the defect is difficult to see. The gun would be considered a project gun at this point if you tried to sell it and may have a value of $1k to 1.5K in my opinion. The correct repair would increase the value some and it would make a fine gun to shoot. Craig

I'm curious about your screen name, bucky. I was around Bucky Dent, the retired MLB baseball player, where I went to elementary and high school, in Sylvania, GA. He and I are the same age. Any connection?

Stan sorry to intrude on the post but in Boston that ballplayer is always referred to as bucky f***ING dent. We always use his middle name like we refer to Jim Hunter as Catfish and Bill Lee as Spaceman.