Happen to have a Fox CE and a B grade Rem 1894 on my bench right now. Both boxlocks but very different actions. The Rem is a classic A&D action. The Fox is homegrown. The Rem is a lot easier to strip...the Fox is a PITA esp. the toplever assy. Never seen such a complicated toplever in any other gun. Even Parker managed to get it simpler. The ejector mechanism is the other way round. Fox with linear hammers is much simpler than the Rem with its finicky interlock (ever time one of those?), leaf springs and rotating hammers that are hell to reassemble. But what struck me was the very thin action walls on the Fox compared to the Rem. There is a LOT of metal hogged out on the Fox action, and the sidewalls are visibly thinner than the Rem. The pin for the sears is closer to the corner of the action as well (point of maximum stress).
BTW does anyone know how to remove the coil mainsprings from a Fox action? They look like they should just pull out but they don't.
