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Are we correct to say for the non-ejector guns, like most Fox Sterlingworths, theres nothing wrong with a snap on forearm (e.g., Hackett forearm), its plenty secure? Ejector guns, however, need a bit more security like a Deeley latch mechanism.


The very earliest Sterlingworths used the Baker J-spring latch which has been perfectly satisfactory on hundreds of thousands of guns, but for some reason the A.H. Fox Gun Co. (The Sterlingworth Co.) didn't get it right. Both the A.H. Fox Gun Co.'s J.C. Kremer & A.H. Fox latch used for a while on extractor guns until Parker Bros. started using it on their Trojan, and the AHFGCo.'s F.T. Russell latch used on ejector guns early on and both ejector and extractor guns to the end was perfectly satisfactory. In the later Savage years they did use a Deeley latch on a very few 12-gauge Fox-Sterlingworth Ejector Skeet & Upland Game Guns when ordered with a beavertail forearm.

I have no idea what a Hackett forearm is?

Last edited by Researcher; 11/22/20 10:11 PM.