Bladeswitcher, I believe you have the same gun as mine. I wouldn't change the choke if it were mine. Too many easy solutions that do not require choke changing. JMHO...Geo
While researching my gun I found that BSA only made doubles from 1921 to 1939. The records were destroyed in WW-2. Most were plain guns which I've always thought of as the Stevens 311 of the British gun trade. Very few of the "Director Model" quality you have were produced. There is a good article in Shooting Sportsman a few months back on BSA...Geo
I have that copy of the Shooting Sportsman. In fact, that's what got me looking at BSA. I bought one a year or so ago that is plain Jane with the exception of the buttplate option. It's a 2-1/2 gun, choked just like this one. It's a really nice handling, sweet shooting gun. I picked this one up a week or so ago on Gunbroker. Somehow it slipped through the cracks and I got a good deal.
I'm not a hunter (yet), just a skeet shooter/sporting clays neophyte. I like side by sides, though, and have several. I'm also a pawnbroker/FFL so I'm somewhat attuned to resale considerations.
My inclination is to leave this one alone but the thought did cross my mind . . . worst thing that would happen if I leave it the way it is would be that I'd miss some clay birds.
