The Fox doesn't seem to rate as highly as others when members discuss their best and favourites, as they've been doing lately.
And yet, here's Michael McIntosh on Page 81 of his A.H. Fox "The Finest Gun in the World":
“No Fox gun--indeed, no American gun---has ever approached the perfection of a London best nor the finest products of the various European trades, but by the same token, no boxlock action built anywhere exceeds the simplicity or reliability or sheer mechanical excellence of a Fox. No British or European boxlock is any better, and no American gun can even come close---not Parker nor Ithaca nor the Winchester 21 nor even Uncle Dan Lefever’s great Automatic Hammerless.”
Mr. McInstosh quoted John Wilkes’s opinion of the quality a Fox XE on the rack at his London store: “Oh, quite good. The Fox and the Ithaca single trap are the only guns you chaps ever made that are as good as guns ought to be.”
What think thee?
