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Lord Lowell -
It could indeed be the city doctor's gun, but kept only as a decoy for theives. Affordable to be stolen, it satiates the ne'er-do-wells while the minty Becker-bored CE lies in repose in the Chestnut-panelled gunroom out on the Main Line. Easily replaced, the Sterlingworth is the sacrificial anode to the higher-graded Foxes. The good doctors purr like kittens as they shop for replacement decoy guns, duping the hoodlums at every turn. KBM
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I'd rather have a Trojan. I'm having trouble with the "cafe set" thing tho'.
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Why does it have to be "either or"?? I'd bet on a broad spectrum of original purchasers - from the back woods gun nut who couldn't reall afford one to the "town doc" who could afford whatever he wanted, but chose not to afford a higher grade. Who was median/average purchaser? My money would bo on "Joe Average Hunter". I really don't believe there is a social class action involved in the history of the Stirlingworth.
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You do know that a Sterlingworth is simply a Fox like any other without the embellishments? Sure, the barrels don't say Chromox or Krupp, but obviously the steel meets the specs necessary to make decent barrels... The rust blue is good, the frame was nicely finished, and the stocks were straight grained and strong in the right places. It's about as simple as gun can be made internally... I'd have bought one then for the same reason I buy basic unimbellished guns now. Good bang for the buck.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Sterlingworth, Trojan, Lefever G or H, Smith Field. All extremely effective and useful utility grade guns for the masses, and all still dear to our hearts for different reasons. May it always be thus.
Imagination is everything. - Einstein
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I didn't help "Elect" the SW as "King". Therefore you can call me a "Rebel" as I'd take even the lowly DS Lefever over the SW any day of the week. Make that a "Johnny Reb", my GGF rode with NBF.
Miller/TN
I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra
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Long live the Fox Sterlingworth !!!!!! Bobby
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"Image" means little to the dead duck in my bag.
But,
I have a weakness for affordable guns.
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The sterlingworth is for the city doctor that would rather be golfing but the weather has turned.......
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Lowell:
My, my, my! Didn't do a bit of good for Jack Maloney and I to beat the living crap out of you over your rube-ification of "used in the field grade" double shotguns. I guess you've realized we were pulling your leg with that "old status elite" gag; it's true most Sterlingworths were shot by barbers and rabbinical students.
jack
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