Right on the money- and thanks.. I only went by what the late Michael McIntosh wrote in his book "Best Guns"-- I'm going back to the local sport shop that has this 16- see if the barrels "ring"- and check the chokes, trigger pulls, firing pins with snap caps- good stock dims (for me)-- as are those on my 1929 era 12 gauge 2E grade NID-- RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..