Fox Collectors

Model 12 16ga. Nothing carries like one, to my hands at least.

gotta say my model 42 on woodcock is my favorite!

Even though I might have owned 15 or so Fox guns at any time, my favorite shotgun and quail companion, is a 20 Ga,
P Grade (fluid steel), 26" Parker. Some of you central east coast guys might be surprised to learn I bought it many years ago
from "Old never had a screw turned". I lived in Virginia most of my life, and bought several guns from him: you just need to
pay attention !

Ed Farrand

My Parker Trojan 20 gauge is my favorite. My Super Fox is probably second

My go to is an early BE with 30" barrels.

My 6 1/4 pound 26" Sauer ten gauge. Easy to carry and will kill to extreme ranges. I even carry it for grouse with an extreme spreader in the right barrel.

A Fox Sterlingworth Skeet and Upland Game Gun 16Ga. with 28" bbls. Choked 1/4 choke and Modified according to letter.
Rear gun is a Parker Brothers DHE 16ga. on a #1 frame with 28" bbls. choked IC/Mod.
This picture taken earlier this season when Cousin Bill and I were out chasing some Northern Pa. Grouse. Chasing being the optimum
word here. Paul

I have two favorites. Both are twelve gauge guns. My early season gun is an AE shipped in 1915. It has 32 inch barrels and is choked .018/.026. The second is a BE that shipped in 1908. It has 30inch barrels and is choked .038/038. I use it when the only roosters left have very long tails. My goal is to wear off the bluing on both guns.

loggy wrote: My goal is to wear off the bluing on both guns.

Two very nice Foxes and an admirable goal!

SRH

For ducks I use my 12g BSS with my Dan Rossiter custom stock and ISIS Recoil System. Geese, Ithaca Super 10, 2 7/8" gun. Turkeys it's either my Ithaca Super-10 or my Rem 870 Mag w/red dot good to 60 yards on any longbeard that happens to be unfortunate enough to walk in front of my blind. Upland is by far my 16g Fox SW w/28" bbls. I just gravitate to the "Queen of the Uplands" for 90% of my hunts.

Jeff S wrote:For 25 years I used a 12 ga. BSS with 26" barrels. Great gun for partridge and woodcock, but a smidge bulky with the beavertail forearm. Then I caught the Fox bug and my favorite is my 1923 12 ga. sterlingworth with 26" #3 barrels. A little under 7 pounds and a joy to carry in the woods.

Jeff, partridge? You know the difference between partridge and grouse? Partridge are on the ground when you shoot them, grouse are rocketing through the thicket when you shoot at them!!

Har Har Har! Well, you know it takes a pretty good hunter to shoot a grouse. However, it takes a truly great hunter to sneak up on a partridge and get within shooting range. I recommend moccasins.

When I first started hunting bobwhite down here, as a kid, many men called them either birds or partridges ............... no, I take that back. Actually, they called them either "buhds" or "pottidges". But hey, they called a largemouth a trout, a crappie a speckled perch, a bluegill a bream, a chain pickerel a jackfish, a bowfin a mudfish, and a spotted sunfish a stumpknocker. I had to learn a whole new vocabulary when I began reading hunting and fishing magazines.

SRH

I know what you mean Stan. I used to read about the fishermen back East catching bream and horned pout and thinking how cool that would be. Wasn't until much later I found out they were bluegills and bullheads .

A young Researcher on a Minnesota Partridge hunt --
Dad's cousin Edna (left) is holding her Model 12, while her husband Willis' Model 12 is leaning against the tree. In between the bird I'm holding in my left hand and the birds my Father has in his left hand I can see the "Purdey style" forearm tip of his AE-Grade Remington Hammerless Double.

This early training apparently didn't take, and in a couple of years with the Forest Service, I shot more Grouse here in Washington State, with one of these --
then I will live long enough to shoot with a shotgun.