Thank you all for your commentary about auto-safeties. I don't have a preference either way, I was just wondering what the schools of thought were since I read about doing so on the Fox Collector site.

I'm posting over there as well to try and learn about what model my gun is. I thought it was a Brush Model, but there's a screw/tang interface that is significantly different than the pictures of a Brush.

I think now that it's a Skeet and Upland Game. There is also an opinion that it was re-barrled, but the Skeet and Upland Game had a 26" barrel, and ejectors as an upgrade option.