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Anyone who would ream all the choke out of a 32" barreled 16 ga. Fox, of any grade, probably stole from his grandmother and kicks puppies.

Just sayin'.

SRH

some skeet shooters like long barrels...wonder how it would work as a skeet gun?

Simply pit, I think most potential buyers looking for a Purdy will pass it by without a second look. I would.

I wasn't particularly impressed with the way it handled. But then I wasn't thinking target gun. My guess is that someone probably ordered it as a waterfowl gun, and ordered it with tight chokes. Then some idiot, for some reason, got their hands on it. Might work OK as a multipurpose target gun with Brileys. But unless you could buy it pretty cheap, I doubt you'd ever recover what you paid for it plus having the Brileys installed. Value pretty much trashed.

One option is to have Briley install the "Notchless" chokes.
They are almost invisible.

Just a warning, Briley will install their thin-wall series tubes in guns with muzzles that are already so thin that other choke shops won't do it. I'm proof of that statement. Just because they will do so, though, does not mean it is advisable. The barrel metal at the muzzles often becomes paper thin and, when the tube is screwed out for any reason, the muzzles are extremely susceptible to denting or damage. I've seen some I could have squeezed into ruin with my thumb and forefinger, with the tube out, had I tried.

Also, just because a barrel(s) is fitted with Briley thin-walls doesn't mean it is automatically paper thin. I have some that aren't.

SRH

Problem with that Fox is that after chokes have been opened up it may be very marginal for screw in choke tube to be added. I�ve heard of more than one gun Briley returned with a explanation barrels were now too thin for choke tubes. A permanent tube could be installed they thought but not removable ones.

Ed, how big do you think the 16 gauge, 32�, side by side Skeet market is? About as close to zero as you can get I�d say. If I bought it I would have tried to have a permanent choke tube installed. What they did was about as clueless as pulling wood grained vinyl panels on the sides of a corvette to make it look like a classic 1972 LTD SW with wood grained side panels.

You made that donation yet Freeloader Brent D.n.*.*.*.

I can find a lot of "Purdy" paintbrushes at ACE hardware- as well as seeing pictures of "Bud" Purdy- the late Idaho rancher who went hunting with Hemingway, Gary Cooper, Howard Hawks and others out in the Sun Valley area of Idaho- decades ago--

But if I had the dinero to buy a Purdey shotgun- previously owned, rather than await a 2 year delivery and the VAT factor-- I'd buy a Perrazi 12 bore o/U similar to the one George Digweed uses-- and keep the change-- RWTF

Originally Posted By: L. Brown
I just had occasion to look at a Fox A Grade 16ga, 32" barrels. Gun is in very good original condition . . . except for the fact that all choke was removed! Installing Brileys is about the only way to make it into a useful shooter. But whoever had the choke work done significantly devalued what has to be a pretty darned rare gun.

Another option, other than have choke tubes installed would be to Jug choke it.

Pete