I know I will catch some heat for this. If you have ever had a Fox apart it is easy to see that the bar is not as strong as a Parker, Ithaca NID, LC Smith or Syracuse Lefever. An Ithaca Flues or a Fox have a lot of metal removed for the cocking mechanism, that said they are still safe to use with loads they were designed for. It would be interesting to see if the Foxes made for heavy loads have more metal in the standing breech area.

Jim

I learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what I learned the day before was wrong