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What were the names of the Fulton Boxlock guns?
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The Hunter Arms boxlock came in 3 flavors, the Standar Fulton, the Fulton Special and the Hunter Special. As rev says, there were many Fultons made for Hardwar dealers, with many different names.. MDC
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I like Fultons, they were my Dads go to gun. I have had them in all flavors. I just got a 16 back from Fred Wenig, that I had stocked in a nice piece of wood, Next time Steve Bertram drops by, he will take the bbls over for reblue. I am even thinking of sending the box to Mr. Hurst for some of his tasteful scratching...Good Guns!
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While the "conventional wisdom" states 1915 for the introduction of the Fulton, Hunter Arms Co. may have been making these guns for the "trade" earlier, as one marked "Manhattan Arms Co." is pictured at the top of page 36 in the 1912 Schoverling, Daly & Gales catalogue. It had a net selling price of $15 while the 00-grade L.C. Smith had a net selling price of $25.
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The most common "alias" used on Hunter Fultons was Ranger, made for Sears. Quite a few of those around.
I've never seen an accurate figure for total production of Hunter Specials, but I don't think many of them were made. Similar to the Lefever A Grade, made by Ithaca: an attempt to make a slightly more upscale economy gun at a time (mid to late 30's) when a few bucks less than the price of an Ithaca or Elsie Field Grade might've been enough to sell a gun.
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John Houchins reported 8,876 Hunter Specials, 2,219 Fulton Specials, and 44,380 Fultons (don't know if this includes the trade name guns.)
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Brophy gives a total of 55K+ for all the Hunter boxlocks, so that jives with Houchins. However, I've always wondered whether that total included the Rangers etc. I owned a Ranger-marked Fulton, SN in the 156K range which would be 1937 if in the normal Hunter SN sequence, which supposedly included all Hunter doubles. Thus, maybe the total does include the guns made for Sears and others.
On the other side of the ledger, I see enough Fultons and Fulton-marked Rangers to make me wonder. In comparison, there were supposedly 250K+ Lefever Nitros produced. In my experience, they are not 5x as common as the Fultons.
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John's book somehow missed the fact that the Fulton and the Hunter Special were both offered in .410-bore.
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I owned one in the 50's marked Ranger. I saw that it was a well made 16 bore in mint condition. Bought it $35 bucks and being so dumb as to value name brands, sold it for $30, I regret it to this day. Chopper
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