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I've purchased a Superposed and am trying to figure out the choke markings. I couldn't find a table of the markings in Schwing's book.

The gun is marked "**-" on one barrel and "**-" with an S stamped directly over the "-" on the other barrel. I suspect from looking at the stampings that they are not all original. One * on the top barrel is distinctly deeper than the other "*-". The markings on the lower barrel are of different depths and clarity as well.

I'll pattern the gun later, but my first reaction after shooting it is that I've got a real winner here. I did quite well with it on the skeet field, missing only those birds that dropped unexpectedly or stopping my swing on birds launched into the wind that I overtook more quickly than expected. (It was very windy and the birds were jumping and dropping as well as slowing much more than usual.)

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Skeet & Skeet.

* = full choke
*_ = improved modified
** = modified
**_ = improved cylinder
**$ = skeet
*** = cylinder

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Researcher is correct, of course.

You can download the owner's manual from: http://media.browning.com/pdf/om/superposedmanual.pdf The choke markings are on page 11.

To date the gun: http://www.browning.com/services/dategun/detail.asp?id=42

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Thanks to both of you for the information.

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Many Browning Superposed have been remarked, but a mark that looks different from another mark was not neccesarily done in the aftermarket. If a gun were sent back to Browning for rechoking and remarking, the new marks can look pretty amateurish. Even an S over the dash could have been done at Browning.

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Eightbore:

I'd wondered about the markings, but hadn't thought of someone sending the gun back to Browning for rechoking. It would explain the different quality of the stamps while also explaining where a gunsmith would have gotten the choke stamp. Thanks.

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