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Anvil

Anvil

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I have an A.H. Fox Sterlingworth 12 ga that I bought as a study piece. The barrels are in reasonable condition but the rest of it has been butchered. Not by me but I have take it apart to see how everything was put together.
What should I do with it? I have been keeping it around as a wall hanger and testament to bad repair jobs. It's a shame as it is a lively gun.
 
tiriaq said:
Exactly what has been done to it?
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Well I'm not sure where to start. The stock has been broken and repaired multiple times. Sometimes very well, others not so much. The lockwork has a couple of broken pieces, the saftey doesn't work and the firing pins springs have been shortened enough to make then useless. I could replicate the lock work if I sat down at my bench with some files and unplugged my TV.
THe worst offence is the brazing that has been done. I think it was an attempt to tighten up the action.

Here are a couple of pictures. If you look closely you can still see the blue layout fluid. I don't why but someone spent a lot of time doing this

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The good news is that it is definitely fixable.

The bad news is that the price of fixing it would be many times more than a Sterlingworth is worth.

That brazing is just ####ed. I feel your pain.
 
Is that a left handed gun? Or is it that I've never seen a lock so far to the left.
 
The lever is that far left because the breach is off the face too far.
The stock is firewood grade now, I count 9 separate repairs on the stock, a few of them are incredibly well done. The others may have been fitted with an axe, a ball pein hammer and quite probably a Crescent wrench.

The gun appears to have been used in its' present comdition until some of the internals broke

I'm thinking about rebuilding it just to see if I can, It's not like I'm going to make it worse.
 
Ah, Anvil, it is sad to see a nice gun in such poor shape. Good on you for wanting to fix it, but as Claybuster has pointed out it is a losing game as far as the value is concerned. If it were mine I would be looking for another Sterlingworth, say one with wrecked barrels, and build one Frankengun out of the two of them. The Easter gun show in Calgary always seems to have a few clapped out Sterlingworths available, it might be worth a look.

Sharptail
 
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