Does anyone think the A H Fox Gun Company put moly on the sears?
Not in the great Philadelphia pre-1930 era- maybe some roebucks on the sears, but by golly, no moly. Being also a serious target and varmint shooter (scope CF varmint rifles) am sear-i-ous about trigger pulls on my shotguns. Some years ago, before steel shot days, I had a 10# 32" barrel AH Fox HE "Super-Dooper-Fox"- and it had close to 7 lb. trigger pulls on each trigger. About 4 years ago I bought a Savage-AH Fox Utica Sterlingworth 20 gauge, DT, extractors, 28" M&F for dove shooting- The trigger pulls were also close to 7 lbs. on my Lyman trigger pull scale- waaay heavy on a 6 & 1/2 lb. shotgun, IMO. I had Brad B. do the trigger work (no job for amateurs here)- the gun had been in storage for 30 years when I bought it, the innards were clean as a whistle- but the crappier craftsmanship during the Depression let this sweet little Sterly get out the door with heavy pulls- not conducive to accurate wingshooting-.. RWTF