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Found this ancient thread and thought I'd add a link to Askin's original comparison testing published in Outdoor Life

Super Fox patterns April 1922
https://archive.org/details/sim_outdoor-life_1922-04_49_4/page/234/mode/2up?view=theater

November 1923, “An American Super 12” The Super Fox boring & patterns
https://archive.org/details/sim_outdoor-life_1923-11_52_5/page/356/mode/2up

December 1925 Comparative Patterns Super-Fox, Smith Long Range, Ithaca 10g
https://archive.org/details/sim_outdoor-life_1925-12_56_6/page/452/mode/2up?view=theater

I have a Big Ithaca 10 that someone had messed with before I acquired it. The bores were different sized. I had Briley bore match and then make screw in chokes that mirror as much as possible the original profile but with a start of the current bore diameter, about .800 if memory serves. I have used it mostly for sandhill crane shooting on the Texas rice prairies. The load is 1 7/8 oz.of buffered bismuth 2's. I have regularly killed the flying t'bones at 75yds or so.

At lot of gun at 11 pounds or so that needs a kneeling or standing position.

A couple more Bill

December 1923 “10 Bores and Progressive Powders”
https://archive.org/details/sim_outdoor-life_1923-12_52_6/page/442/mode/2up?view=theater

January 1924 “Goose and Turkey Loads”
An Ithaca 10, a Super Fox and a Lewis Magnum
https://archive.org/details/sim_outdoor-life_1924-01_53_1/page/30/mode/2up?view=theater

My 1931 vintage No. 2 Super-10 has bores of .789" right and .790" left, with .053" choke in the right barrel. While it is choke marked 4 & 4, some previous owner must have had the left barrel opened, as it has .027" choke. I owned a 1935 or later Field Grade Magnum-10 for 16 years and never used it, so it flowed down the river of commerce. My notes show it having bores of .778" right and .777" left, with chokes of .043" right and .041" left.

I bought the No. 2 Super-10 from Randy Shuman, and it has the original shipping box with the Ithaca label and the Railway Express COD shipping label showing the purchaser paid $30 down and the remaining $27.50 on delivery.

My 1938 NID 3.5" measures .750" in each barrel and each measures .038" of choke. Last time I patterned it over 40 years ago, It was 90% at 40 yards in a 30" circle with 2 1/8 oz of nickel plated BB's. Right barrel was 55% at 40 yards with a spreader load of 2.5 oz. of #3 chilled lead (St. Louis Threes). The loads were for spring gobblers. Gil