They had a Savage/Utica made "Fox Sterlingworth" with a capless pistol grip, poly slathered butt/forend with worn checkering, clunker savage top lever, marked 2 3/4", with 28" barrels and in 20 gauge. Bluing 30% and case colors were nill.
In October 1938, my friend Henry of Federal Oak Farm, Charles County, Maryland, was given just such a gun new for his 21st birthday. Fifty-nine years later, and after visiting every barbed wire fence and thorny growth from Southern Maryland to the New York border, Henry passed it on to me.
For the next six seasons I shot quite a few Doves with it. When I was leaving the area I decided the old 20-gauge Fox-Sterlingworth should stay in Southern Maryland and passed it on to another young bird hunting member of our gun club. A few years later he sent me a picture of it with grouse he'd shot with it up in New York.
