Fox Collectors

I like you better right side up Kevin LOL

Back on the Farm it was my job to keep the Pigeons in check. My Dad had the biggest flock of Pigeons in the area, and a lot of stray Pigeons from other farms were always
joining ours. So I used his 16ga. Riverside with 32in. barrel. I was 10 years old than and it took awhile before I started hitting them , but as the summer went on I began to hit
them on a regular basis. I tried to shoot the strays only, but at times it was hard to tell them apart. After about six months of shooting I learned how to lead them and judge distance's.
One thing for sure, at first they were hard to hit but then they became easy, so I didn't have to spend so much time thinning them out. By the way, I still have that 16ga. Riverside.

Harry

I almost never see a 16 ga Fox around here. But today, at a local Virginia gun show there were two. Both Sterlingworths, one at 28” and one at 30”.
$950 each. I thought that was very fair.

MC1952 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 28, 2026 2:29 pm I almost never see a 16 ga Fox around here. But today, at a local Virginia gun show there were two. Both Sterlingworths, one at 28” and one at 30”.
$950 each. I thought that was very fair.

I would have snatched both of them up at that price if they were in decent condition. Especially the 30" one.

They are still there. Near Dale City.

The16 GA. sterly stocked to fit is my favorite early season grouse gun shooting #6s through the leafs and isn't too much gun for late season wide open woods. but down in Virginia in tidewater woodcock only areas the 28 is a joy to carry and shoot.

Nice pictures. That cover looks pretty thick.

Just rereading this post and I've come to the conclusion the one's favorite gauge is more or less determined at your time of birth. What I mean is that in most cases whatever gauge Dad, grandpa or favorite uncle started us with is the one we tend to consider our favorite. For me it was the 20. A Stevens 311 and at the time it was all I could ever want. My father never asked me he just started me with that gun. Double triggers and not as elegant as some of my current 20's but my first gun none the less. I need to shoot it soon.

Researcher wrote: ↑Sun Jan 25, 2026 5:38 pm The fact that there was no 16-gauge event in NSSA skeet and the introduction of the 3-inch Magnum 20-gauge in the late 1950s mitigated against the 16-gauge, but 70 plus years later the 16 still has its advocates. For over 150 years rifle manufacturers have been able to neck down, blow out, add a belt, etc. and come up with some new product to sell. By 1912 we had all the smokeless powder high velocity rifle calibers to take care of anything on the North American continent -- .375 H & H, .30 govt' 06, 7x57mm and the .22 Savage hi-power. Poor shotgun manufacturers have been stuck with six bore sizes, really three more than we "need."

Dave,

Not to be provacative but but in your learned experience what where the three bore sizes that we don't need. Inquiring minds want to know.

I don't think Dave is much of a proponent of the ten, twenty eight, and .410. It's not that he doesn't own them, but Ansley never made them.

eightbore wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 12:20 pm I don't think Dave is much of a proponent of the ten, twenty eight, and .410. It's not that he doesn't own them, but Ansley never made them.

That would be my guess but I'll wait for Dave to chime in.

The 10-gauge for heavy waterfowl work and for those who like to sit around in camo waiting to ground sluice those things that tear up my landscaping and defecate all over the driveways.

The 16-gauge for an all-around gun.

The 28-gauge for fun!

Alas and alack, no mention by Dave of my beloved, slender, petite little .410 bore.