Fox River Custom

[eublepharis]

Looking for more help here.  I couldn't pass up the chance to pick up another contender package today because of a great price.  With it, I got an extra 12" barrel.  On one side of the barrel it says "Fox River Custom 223 Rem" and on the other side it says "Thompson Center Arms  Rochester, NH".  It appears to be a tapered barrel and is round on the bottom, but beveled on both sides on the top of the barrel. 

Is this a TC barrel?  Is its worth comparable to a regular TC barrel?  Any other details you can share about it would be great too.  My quick web search didn't turn up anything useful.

Thanks!
Dan

[Rog]

T/C's custom shop has been known as "Fox Ridge Outfitters" in the past.  However, is it possible that the one you have is a TCA barrel?

Don't know.

[RonF]

I don't believe this is a TCA barrel.  T/C made and marketed these barrels a number of years ago, and I believe they were marketed through the custom shop, which in its early years may not have yet begun to be called Fox Ridge - don't know.  I also don't recall just what these barrels were called, but they had a specific name.  Several months ago, however, there was an article about such T/C barrels in One Good Shot, the magazine of the TCA.

RonF

[lonewolf256]

The 223 remington barrel is called a "scalloped" barrel, which was an option for Fox Ridge Custom shop for a couple of years.
Hope this helps.

If you are interested in letting this barrel go , let me know as I don't currently have one.

[eublepharis]

If "Fox River" was actually a different entity than the TC custom store called "Fox Ridge" or  if it was part of it, I don't know.  Here is what someone else told me, and it was supported by others.

"what you have was produced in the mid 90's by the TC custom shop for a sporting goods store called Fox river outfitters. Easily confused with the T/C custom shop store called Fox ridge. Original price was $220 and the barrel profile was called "12" tapered diamond back".Might have some collector value."

I also had several people refer to the design of the barrel as "scallaped barrel".  I was just buying the gun for the frame and didn't want another .223 barrel, but the price was right.  I didn't realize the .223 was anything unique until I went to pick it up.  Thanks for the replys.  I'll attach a couple of crappy pics I took.  Don't know how you guys get such nice, clear pics of your pistols.

[Ladobe]

No confusion about this... Fox Ridge Outfitters is TC's on-sight retail outlet and where they have always peddled their so called custom barrels and frames.    As LW said, they did offer a "scalloped or diamondback" barrel that was sold for a short time from TC's retail outlet FRO.   I never owned one, although one was considered for a time back when they were first available.   What I don't know without digging old catalogs out of storage is how TC inscribed those barrels, or remember exactly what they called them.   So if your barrel bears Fox River instead of Fox Ridge?   I can only add that TC has never made it a common practice to produce special Contender barrels for any other outsources other than the TCA and Fox Ridge Outfitters.   So maybe they inscribed the scalloped/diamondback barrels Fox River?   A quick call to TC CS would get the answer if you really care (a bunch easier than me trying to dig through storage).