Fox model B 20 ga help

[bean357]

I am in the middle of putting my gun pics and info onto Gun Tracker. I'm now at the Fox Model B 20 gauge side-by-side and am having no luck finding any kind of serial number for it. Can anyone help me out on where to look? Or isn't there one??
Thanks!

 

[rick_reno]

On my Fox 20 ga. the s/n is written in beautiful scroll numbers on the trigger guard.

 

[bean357]

Nothing on the trigger guard on mine. It is a model B-SE if that makes a difference...?
Thanks

 

[rick_reno]

It's also written in the same scroll on the foreend piece - it's scribed on the metal that is in the middle of the foreend. You have to snap it off to see it.

 

[bean357]

I just took the foreend off-nothing there at all either. I saw one of these purchased at an auction in a .410, and as I recall, they could not find a SN either, and just wrote down "BSE"

 

[dfariswheel]

Before 1968 there was no law that firearms had to have a serial number, and many .22 rifles, and shotguns didn't.

In all likelihood, your Fox is a pre-68 and had no number.

 

[bean357]

Thank you, dfariswheel! I'll quit fretting about finding a SN then. Cheers!

 

[rick_reno]

Before 1968 there was no law that firearms had to have a serial number, and many .22 rifles, and shotguns didn't.

I'm sure it's a pre-68 gun. These guns were made from about 1905 until the early 1930's. According to what my father told me, my great grandfather bought the one I have new sometime in the late 1920's.

 

[JohnBT]

You have a real Fox. The Model B a modification of the Stevens 311 design IIRC. Savage had purchased Stevens and Fox and used the gun from one and the name from the other to turn out the Model B.

The new 12 ga. I got in the early '60s was real kicker, although it shot tight patterns. After I gave up on it my uncle finally sold it to a guy at work and the first time he shot it he bloodied his nose with the back of his thumb.

John

 

[bean357]

Ouch on the 12 gauge episode!

Thanks to all of you for your assistance and info. Kind of glad I've held on to the Fox. There has been one guy really working on me for the past two and a half years to sell it. Nah. It's older than I am - by at least a year!