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Thanks Adam for the kind words! My turn to invite for you to come up here. Just let me know.
Have a great rest of the season!
Greg
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Stan, I agree to what Gil said, you could have posted more and I would have enjoyed reading it and looking at the pictures.
Greg, you are very fortunate to have birds by you and be able to hunt with your boys. Nothing could be better.
Adam, always nice to read your posts and see your pictures. As said before that is a good looking Dickinson and a .410 to boot. That would be my favorite for quail, woodcock also.
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Nice Duck Shoot/Family post Stan This may have been covered in prior post , but if you have time,would you give me/us a little more info about your big Fox gun.... Weight , chambers, bores and chokes........
Thanks, PM
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Sure, Paul, glad to. It was shipped from Fox in 1927. 32" barrels with .739" bores and .048" choke in each barrel. It letters as weighing 9# 5oz., as shipped. The Hawkins pad is not mentioned in the Callahan letter, so I assume it was added at a later date, which may add a few ounces to the weight. Seems like I weighed it once at about 9# 9 oz. It has another buttstock, which is a Monte Carlo, numbered to the gun, and which may possibly have been built by Savage for it. Can't prove that, tho', and if so, the pad looks to have been replaced. Ready to rumble: This gun came from a great friend and fellow member of this and the Fox Collector's board many years ago. I am still very grateful to him for offering it to me. SRH
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Chamber walls are thickest I've ever seen on a 12 ga. double, Stan. JR
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It was built to shoot a steady diet of 3" shells in a time that duck clubs self-limited to 50 ducks per day. That's a lot of recoil to soak up.
Last edited by steve voss; 01/04/16 01:57 PM.
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Thanks Stan, Each and every one of those guns is a study unto itself....I am intrigued by the many similarities they exhibit , and also the unique character of each individual....This specimen has undeniably found a worthy caretaker.....
I am so glad you got to put it work on such an enjoyable outing.
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Thanks Paul. The heavy breech walls that John mentioned are part and parcel of the 9 1/2# weight, but the amazing thing is how well it handles for it's weight. With so much of that weight being there, and in the larger receiver that HEs have, it is right where it needs to be to not cause the gun to be slow to move. Weight right between the hands, and even more so back toward the butt, enables a gun to still exhibit some "liveliness". It's not the deal for trying to run down a woodie that catches you by surprise streaking through the trees, but for old big, fat mallards it is fine.
SRH
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