A few more thoughts about opening up chokes to suit yourself: These old guns were made when shells were not as eficient as they are today. No shot protectors, the fiber and cardboard wads did not seal as well and patterns were not as good(tight)as they are now. If anyone has owned an older Browning Superposed, you will know they usually pattern at least one choke designation tighter than they are marked.
Most of these old guns are not marked to indicate what the original chokes were anyway. Opening them up to a more useful boring will not affect the resale price at all, IMO. By all means they should be described honestly when you sell them, of course. I am not the caretaker of my old guns. I am the owner of them and I will damn well make them to suit my wants.
That said, I shoot clay targets with a couple of Lefevers, one of which I made .015" and .025". The other I have at .010" and .033". Both are great fun to shoot sporting clays, skeet and trap with and are still quite useful for hunting. Point being you don't have to make them skeet and skeet to have fun shooting skeet with them.
Last edited by Jim Legg; 10/03/08 02:42 PM.
