I have kept my Savage FoxB side-by-side for almost 40 years. It's a 20 gauge with the two triggers. Taking it out of my soft case, it looks like the day I bought it. With a 26" barrel, it is a joy to take to the field for dove or quail or the woods for squirel. Since they are not in production these days...any other Fox enthusiests out there?
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Any Savage Fox enthusiasts?
- Thread starter Boncrayon
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I spent the summer of 1973 mowing lawns @ $3 each to save up the money for my first gun. I paid around $125 for one of the Savage Fox 12 gauges. Quit working on the first dove hunt and was never right. Over the next 15 years I let several gunsmiths try to get it working right, but finally sold it cheap.
I'm glad you have had better luck.
I'm glad you have had better luck.
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I have th BSE 20 gauge - used to use it for ducks when lead was legal. I find it a tad too heavy at 7+ pounds for dove and quail - I bought a new 20 SxS that is about a pound lighter. The beavertail to me on a SxS makes the gun too wide. It has had to be rebuilt. It's an OK gun, but not one I would buy again.
The first gun I ever bought was a Savage Fox BSE 20ga. The year was 1973 (I was 13 then). I still remember taking the gun out of the case every night just to look at it. I hunted with it every chance I got and killed many phesants, rabbits, squirrels, and doves with it. That shotgun never let me down. I still have it and would never sell it. I think I will take it out next month for a dove hunt.
I got one for Christmas when I was 13. I loved that gun because it was my first gun that was all my own however it was a piece of junk. It would double, and no I didn't have a finger on each trigger. Then other times it just wouldn't fire. I took it to a gunsmith with no luck. The fit and finish was terrible to put it mildly.
Actually the Savage Fox was a Stevens double with different wood. It was in no way a real Fox. Savage just owned the name and used it on a way lesser product. Having owned a couple of real Fox doubles I can tell you there is absolutely no comparison.
Actually the Savage Fox was a Stevens double with different wood. It was in no way a real Fox. Savage just owned the name and used it on a way lesser product. Having owned a couple of real Fox doubles I can tell you there is absolutely no comparison.
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The first shotgun that I bought myself was a 12 gauge Savage Fox Model B with double triggers.
It had factory 24-inch barrels, ventilate-rib, with IC/M chokes. Was promoted as a quail gun model.
Still have it.
Ever since taking it from the factory box, the gun was very stiff to open and close. Took it more than once to a gunsmith to fix and, though I paid for having it fixed, no one really improved its operation.
After 20+ years of ownership, took it to an 80-year-old gunsmith to have it thoroughly cleaned. As he was dismantling it, he reached for a file, took one stroke with it, then looked up at me and said, "Hope you didn't mind me removing that burr. That burr would have made it difficult to open or close."
He finished cleaning it, re-assembled it, and returned the gun to me. Has since opened and closed like the finest double guns ever made. The gunsmith charged me nothing for any of his work that day.
Would like to get a 16 gauge Savage Fox.
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The first shotgun that I bought myself was a 12 gauge Savage Fox Model B with double triggers.
It had factory 24-inch barrels, ventilate-rib, with IC/M chokes. Was promoted as a quail gun model.
Still have it.
Ever since taking it from the factory box, the gun was very stiff to open and close. Took it more than once to a gunsmith to fix and, though I paid for having it fixed, no one really improved its operation.
After 20+ years of ownership, took it to an 80-year-old gunsmith to have it thoroughly cleaned. As he was dismantling it, he reached for a file, took one stroke with it, then looked up at me and said, "Hope you didn't mind me removing that burr. That burr would have made it difficult to open or close."
He finished cleaning it, re-assembled it, and returned the gun to me. Has since opened and closed like the finest double guns ever made. The gunsmith charged me nothing for any of his work that day.
Would like to get a 16 gauge Savage Fox.
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My brother has a 12 ga Savage-Fox with single trigger that was made in the mid 60s...It shot well until one day in the dove field the second barrel failed to fire...the gunsmith said he'd seen it happen before with that particular model gun...some of them would also double...and some of them shoot perfect every time.