..OK not really. But I was at the local indoor range last monday shooting in the weekly gallery league. Had a good night shooting. As I was perusing the display of long guns I spotted a SXS double with a tag that said "FOX" $200.00!
Now even a diehard O/U and 870 fan like me knows that Fox SXS guns, even beat up and rusted go for more than $200. Even sterlingworths go for big bucks these days.
I asked to see it and it liked me so much it followed me home
Puzzling gun, no serial number! The usual scroll on the side has the word FOX, not the usual Ansley H. Fox?
The Barrel flats, watertable and forend iron are stamped KE. There is an 8 stamped on the Water table and an S.
The gun is obviously set up for trap. High straight stock, very high raised rib.
The fences look like they have been altered or filed upon. There are small marks where some butcher of a 'smith tried to drive out the pins on the sideplates.
Barrels are deeply blued, but there exist some tooling marks on the top of the barrels barely visible unless you look closely.
Receiver still has nice case coloring, except for the dings and fences
The rib looks really unusual and I believe it may have been added on by a gunsmith.
Stock is nothing special but intact and with only minor scratches.
One thing on the barrel flats., the barrels were originally stamped CS or CE, then filed and stamped KE.
I bought it because it was cheap and it still works (both triggers worked with snap caps) It appears tight and definitely has been shot a lot. Probably will take it to Ed the gunsmith at Glen Cove Sport Shop for a checkout.
Having more fun trying to figure out this gun than I will have shooting it, if I ever do.
Geoff Ross
Now even a diehard O/U and 870 fan like me knows that Fox SXS guns, even beat up and rusted go for more than $200. Even sterlingworths go for big bucks these days.
I asked to see it and it liked me so much it followed me home
Puzzling gun, no serial number! The usual scroll on the side has the word FOX, not the usual Ansley H. Fox?
The Barrel flats, watertable and forend iron are stamped KE. There is an 8 stamped on the Water table and an S.
The gun is obviously set up for trap. High straight stock, very high raised rib.
The fences look like they have been altered or filed upon. There are small marks where some butcher of a 'smith tried to drive out the pins on the sideplates.
Barrels are deeply blued, but there exist some tooling marks on the top of the barrels barely visible unless you look closely.
Receiver still has nice case coloring, except for the dings and fences
The rib looks really unusual and I believe it may have been added on by a gunsmith.
Stock is nothing special but intact and with only minor scratches.
One thing on the barrel flats., the barrels were originally stamped CS or CE, then filed and stamped KE.
I bought it because it was cheap and it still works (both triggers worked with snap caps) It appears tight and definitely has been shot a lot. Probably will take it to Ed the gunsmith at Glen Cove Sport Shop for a checkout.
Having more fun trying to figure out this gun than I will have shooting it, if I ever do.
Geoff Ross