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I've been going by the plan and sold either 3 or 4 this year
This was a buy though....too good not to do it.

It's an Ansley H Fox XE grade
It is 12 gauge
Single trigger
26" barrels choked IC/IC

Oh well here it is.

Very nice.

Sweet! Need more stock and forend pics!

Double IC barrels. . .my folks and I moved out of the midwest before I really could do much hunting there, but I DID have the near pants-wetting experience of stepping on coveys of bobwhites. . .which I imagine is not unlike activating a "Bouncing Betty" antipersonnel mine.

I gotta figure that gun was made for hunting bobwhites without the benefit of a dog to locate them.

Oh you so inhale vigorously! Beautiful gun!!

Up here it would probably be a great partridge gun.

The foreend is a beavertail

I suck at whole long gun pictures but here is one.
It has the two Ivory beads.
It also has a single selective trigger.

Zee wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:31 pmVery nice.

Thanks
Would something like this be good on doves or do you use tighter chokes ?

Well, yowza!

I have a pretty evolved dislike/apathy when it comes to straight-wrist stocks, so I probably would not have tried to fight you for it, but the workmanship is still making my eyes tear up a little.

Ya dun scored!

JunkCollector wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:00 pm

Zee wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:31 pmVery nice.

Thanks
Would something like this be good on doves or do you use tighter chokes ?

That would be a fun gun in places like the Salton Sea where the doves are thick, on opening day before they get wise to the fact that low altitude = death. When I've hunted that area, I've run full choke with good success, but I have turned one or two into hamburger when they tried to charge me.

It would also serve pretty well in heavy cover shotgun-only zones for deer with 00 loads. The straightwall case rifle revolution seems to be taking that kind of hunting off the field, but it was a pretty common method back in the day.

Wow, again, the shops I frequent don’t ever stock stuff like that, very cool, afraid to ask what you had to sell away to get to that gun

JunkCollector wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:00 pm

Zee wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:31 pmVery nice.

Thanks
Would something like this be good on doves or do you use tighter chokes ?

Over a tank, yes. Pass shooting I tend to use M/IM.

Wow, I am not much of a shotgunner, but that a Beauty

Chiro1989 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:14 pm Wow, again, the shops I frequent don’t ever stock stuff like that, very cool, afraid to ask what you had to sell away to get to that gun

This was from that batch they took in.
Most way out of my league.
They didn't value this one high.
I laid claim to it fast.

I'll text you OTD price lest I be called a felon

Diver43 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:26 pm Wow, I am not much of a shotgunner, but that a Beauty

I used to do a lot of small game hunting.
Rabbits with beagles
Pheasant and partridge maybe soon enough I will again.

WOW!! That is spectacular. I see now why you pursued it so hard.

Absolutely gorgeous gun!!!

sakodude wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:07 pm WOW!! That is spectacular. I see now why you pursued it so hard.

Thanks buddy
At the right price point.....I was going to catch it.

Wambli Ska wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:28 pm Absolutely gorgeous gun!!!

Thanks brother
I'll see how it shoot soon.
I am an impatient sort.

In Midwest I hunted all birds except ducks and turkeys with IC
Looks like another fine addition to the double collection. The single trigger is a plus in my book. Very nice!

Japhy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:33 pm In Midwest I hunted all birds except ducks and turkeys with IC
Looks like another fine addition to the double collection. The single trigger is a plus in my book. Very nice!

One of the ones out was a 12 double.
This to me was an upgrade to it.

That's a great looking shotgun!

This one may be better than you think
I did a quick check but didn’t have the serial which has the grade but! After 1905 I believe they were marked AH Fox
prior from 1895 to 1905 they were marked Ansley H Fox
This one is worth lookin up! There was only one model with the single trigger I found.

Hi Japhy
I think this one may be around 1918
The single trigger was an add on upgrade to several of the fox graded guns.
The serial is 25084

Yeah that is an amazing shotgun!!! No wonder you bird dogged that as hard as you did!!!!! Very, very nice!

Now that is a purty firearm! It’s a work of art!!