Well, that little nightmare is over with, finally. Anybody else have dealings with Sitting Fox? Mine was not good. Some may remember my post back in March I think it was – OH The heartbreak – where USPS broke the stock. I had ordered and paid for a smoothbore Jaeger kit with a 1x36 Oct to round barrel, CM4 Stock, antique German style accouterments, etc. Well, what I didn’t mention was that NOTHING in that box was correct. The stock wasn’t a jaeger stock. It’s barrel channel was 42 inches and 1 inch wide. The barrel was 7/8x26. The lock was not a Davis Jaeger, it was an L&R Trade Gun type, MAYBE the trigger and the butt plate were correct but I had a mixture of steel and brass accouterments. So he had me send it back. Couple weeks later I’m asking what’s up. “Got all your parts here, cleaning up the barrel (Remember that), and order you a new stock.” Red flags right there – The stock he sent wasn’t the correct one anyway so why order another?
Months go by. “Got your stock, “Would you accept a 24 inch barrel?” NO. “How about a 54 cal?” NO. Give me what you advertised, what I paid for, or give me my money back. I’ve already figured out he never had this kit to begin with. But I tried to let him save some face. What else ya got? One of the finished guns, make me a deal on one of those. Nope. “Oh, wait, I found your barrel. Moved to Florida, then a hurricane. Things got a bit mixed up and some stuff got rusty…”
So he sends me another box. This one made it through USPS with damage. Stock appeared to be correct, except it was not fully inlet as advertised. Lock was correct, even the thimbles. Trigger guard, not so much. And the barrel. He sent me a Coleraine straight Octagon barrel without breech plug. Plug he had ordered from Pecatonica and had shipped to me. The barrel downgrade kind of irritated me. I got out me metal working/measuring tools and checked some things out. As it sat, the touch hole would have to drilled about .33 from the breech end of the barrel. However, the plug was drilled and tapped so that the breech would be at .55. That nearly a quarter inch. The stock didn’t allow for that at all and cutting a groove in the plug that big, uh no. Let him know I’m sending it back, want a refund including the shipping I paid TWICE. He’s hemming and hawing. I had to threaten legal action. Then he’s having trouble getting $$ into his PayPal account yadda yadda. I just returned the breech plug to sender. He gets his parts back and I give him a week. Hey you got your stuff, where’s my refund? “Oh that was Pecatonica, not me” Not the breech plug, the gun parts that were delivered to your porch on this date at this time… THEN I get my money back. Learned a lesson there.
Months go by. “Got your stock, “Would you accept a 24 inch barrel?” NO. “How about a 54 cal?” NO. Give me what you advertised, what I paid for, or give me my money back. I’ve already figured out he never had this kit to begin with. But I tried to let him save some face. What else ya got? One of the finished guns, make me a deal on one of those. Nope. “Oh, wait, I found your barrel. Moved to Florida, then a hurricane. Things got a bit mixed up and some stuff got rusty…”
So he sends me another box. This one made it through USPS with damage. Stock appeared to be correct, except it was not fully inlet as advertised. Lock was correct, even the thimbles. Trigger guard, not so much. And the barrel. He sent me a Coleraine straight Octagon barrel without breech plug. Plug he had ordered from Pecatonica and had shipped to me. The barrel downgrade kind of irritated me. I got out me metal working/measuring tools and checked some things out. As it sat, the touch hole would have to drilled about .33 from the breech end of the barrel. However, the plug was drilled and tapped so that the breech would be at .55. That nearly a quarter inch. The stock didn’t allow for that at all and cutting a groove in the plug that big, uh no. Let him know I’m sending it back, want a refund including the shipping I paid TWICE. He’s hemming and hawing. I had to threaten legal action. Then he’s having trouble getting $$ into his PayPal account yadda yadda. I just returned the breech plug to sender. He gets his parts back and I give him a week. Hey you got your stuff, where’s my refund? “Oh that was Pecatonica, not me” Not the breech plug, the gun parts that were delivered to your porch on this date at this time… THEN I get my money back. Learned a lesson there.
