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Gun started life as a Fox Sterly 28" extractor 16 Gauge (Philly Gun) choked full/mod in great mechanical condition. With a nice stick of Turkish wood and a great engraver and stockmaker the following pictures are the outcome. Gun is 90 percent complete and still needs the buttplate checkered, stock checkered, case hardening etc..

The stock itself is amazing (Dan Rossiter does great work) and the engraving is some of the nicest I've seen. Took a few pictures, but it was dark outside (thunderstorms) and hence the pics inside the NE SXS tent required a slow shutter speed and I couldn't get the depth of field I wanted and the pics are a tad blury. Anyway, a few pictures. When its complete I'll take some more. Gournet was going to take some pictures of the gun and put it on his web site. He said it was something truly different compared to what he normally does. The gun just about a 100 percent copy of the first small bore DE grade Fox made, which was displayed in the DoubleGun Journal in 1995. Gournet did all the engraving based on the photos from the article. Both he and Dan are a pleasure to work with.

PS. This project from soup to nuts covered more then 3 years. One has to be patient as everyone seems to have a pretty large backlog of work.

Fantastic!!!! Another stunning Fox to add to the already growing list of members here who have redone their Fox shotguns.

Gorgeous gun Mr. Tut. Be sure to post pictures of the finished project...Geo

Fantastic!!

Very tastefully done!!!

Tom what a Fox!!!! Bobby

Just beautiful!

Tut,

That is exquisite. The engraving is so appropriate for the gun. Who is going to do the case hardening for you? Is it going to be charcoal pack or cyanide?

Please post back some pics after it is 100% done.

Thanks for posting, SRH

Very, very nice! Gournet does superior work and one of his specialties is matching the style of the old masters.

Thanks for the kind words. Going to be charcoal pack which would have been the norm in 1912 for Fox. Probably John Gillette at classic guns who has done my other Foxes will handle that for me. John does most of the work for Dan Rossiter at Custom Stocks and Steel and they have a great working relationship with fast turn around times with consistent quality.

Truly masterful work. Gil