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Leave as is, if you bought it to own an untouched gun, as a collector. If you bought it to shoot, open it to your preference.
A gun accommodates hunting and shooting, a tool. The notion of assigning it to sacred ground, a gender, to "fondle," puts my teeth on edge.
Not to say a gun can't be admired for its simplicity or consummate craftsmanship but it's still only a thing performing an action.
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If you reload, I would leave it alone and adjust the pattern with spreaders. Its EZ to remove material but hard to replace. There may come a day when you want that full left barrel.
Bladeswitcher's comment works for me. Wait and think.
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The gun is factory choked open on the right and a tight full on the left. Measure, or have measured, the existing chokes. You don't really know exactly what you have currently. If it's like .005/.045, then open the left to something like .020 and have fun. It's a BSA, not an untouched 95% Parker AAHE. No sin involved, your absolved. JR
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depends upon your shooting...I love that combo for roosters over my flushers.
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That gun is a looker. Not many English boxlocks around with 2 3/4" chambers, that high condition, and ejectors.
I'd say just get the bird with the first shot. Failing that, load a spreader in the second tube. You can have your cake and eat it, that way.
Best,
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From that picture?
HELL NO!
SKB is right.
If you want something for close work, buy another gun that's already been reamed.
That gun has a nice combo for sporting clays shooting as well.
Out there doing it best I can.
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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
Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 11/03/16 10:44 AM. Reason: added last paragraph
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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.
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I have a quality 1920's engraved English boxlock ejector (12 ga.) made by Edwinson Green that is factory choked as CYLINDER and FULL. While it seems an usual choice, I decided to leave it as-is. If I miss with the right barrel on a flushing bird, I need to remember to pause a bit before firing the left barrel. On the other hand, the left barrel is good on passing shots.
However, I see no sin in opening chokes. I have had several opened on classic American "using SxS's", and been pleased with the results.
gold40
Last edited by gold40; 11/03/16 11:15 AM.
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