Bill, Mine is #8734. Possibility of our guns being bored by the same individual and same tooling. Maybe even sharing the same rack in the assembly line. I brought up the bore diameter question as this particular gun has exceptionally mint bores. The gun seems untouched in all manner. With the bores being in such mint condition, I wonder if it could have come from the factory at .731". Did you ever get a letter on your gun? I've sent for one and it would be interesting to share info to see how close they were in date of production. Mine is an A grade with 30" barrels? Thanks for your reply.
Mike, I agree, the # is just a pre-assembly note to the Fox barrel filer guy/gal and insignificant beyound that point. But a weight number other than #3 might indicate a special order for some reason or other. If I would find a Fox gun on auction and looking for a heavy waterfowl gun, I might stay away from a #4 barrel weight gun and keep looking for a #1 wt barrel. This of course if the actual weight of the gun was not listed. Thanks for bringing it up.
Randy
