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Well if you are to go by the bore and choke markings on your gun and they give 1/2 and 3/4 chokes, then yes they would work for your hunting. But as mentioned, you will not know that for sure unless you pattern the gun and if you can't do that before buying it, then you have to take a chance. Also, do you know for sure that someone hasn't already opened up the chokes?
I have 3 Brno SxS's and all are full/modified. While the full choke isn't ideal, I use them for upland hunting the way they are.
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the gun i am going to buy is almost new and not second hand or used one,.. and i am sure about it that chokes are factory ones .
by the way what markings are there on your brno shotguns can you share some pics.., one i am going to buy is auto ejector with 28" barrels and pistol grip stock.
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the gun i am going to buy is almost new and not second hand or used one,.. and i am sure about it that chokes are factory ones .
by the way what markings are there on your brno shotguns can you share some pics.., one i am going to buy is auto ejector with 28" barrels and pistol grip stock. What model are you looking at? I was under the impression that Brno SxS's haven't been made for a number of years. I'm curious as to how the one you are looking at is not second hand?
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Here is a pic I had on hand. I will have to pull them out of the safe later to check barrel markings. The english stocked gun is a 12 gauge ejector gun. The other 2 are extractor guns and the one with the black recoil pad is a 16 gauge. While 2 of them look almost new, the newest gun is I believe from 1973. 
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I just checked my barrel markings. They are marked the same as yours, that being 17.6 and 17.8. There is no bore size stamping on them, same as yours. I am assuming my bores are around .729 which would make the chokes full and improved modified. They throw tight patterns. You are under the assumption that your bores might be 18.5 because you saw another gun like that. That could be wrong. You will only know by having the bores measured, or better yet, by patterning it.
My 16 gauge is marked 16.2 and 16.4, full and modified.
Are you sure the pic of the barrels you show as marked 18.35 is actually a Brno shotgun? Counting my 3 guns, the one you are looking at and a couple of others I have seen, they all only had the choke constriction stamped. The actual bore dimensions were not stamped on any of them. I have also not seen that little circular mark with a line through it, beside the bore diameter in your pic, stamped in any of the Brno guns I looked at. Of course I haven't seen them all.
If you don't want to open up the chokes and can't measure bores or try the gun before hand, I would be cautious because I think you will find it is full and modified( if not improved modified) which will be something you stated you don't want.
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yes you are right these are out of production,.. here in our area there is local shop who has brno sxs,.. it is also old one may be also from 70s but what i meant to say is that still this gun has not been in hands of any hunter,.. it may be moved from one dealer to other but it is unfired and unaltered. 
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Here is a pic I had on hand. I will have to pull them out of the safe later to check barrel markings. The english stocked gun is a 12 gauge ejector gun. The other 2 are extractor guns and the one with the black recoil pad is a 16 gauge. While 2 of them look almost new, the newest gun is I believe from 1973. nice looking guns and well kept
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I just checked my barrel markings. They are marked the same as yours, that being 17.6 and 17.8. There is no bore size stamping on them, same as yours. I am assuming my bores are around .729 which would make the chokes full and improved modified. They throw tight patterns. You are under the assumption that your bores might be 18.5 because you saw another gun like that. That could be wrong. You will only know by having the bores measured, or better yet, by patterning it.
My 16 gauge is marked 16.2 and 16.4, full and modified.
Are you sure the pic of the barrels you show as marked 18.35 is actually a Brno shotgun? Counting my 3 guns, the one you are looking at and a couple of others I have seen, they all only had the choke constriction stamped. The actual bore dimensions were not stamped on any of them. I have also not seen that little circular mark with a line through it, beside the bore diameter in your pic, stamped in any of the Brno guns I looked at. Of course I haven't seen them all.
If you don't want to open up the chokes and can't measure bores or try the gun before hand, I would be cautious because I think you will find it is full and modified( if not improved modified) which will be something you stated you don't want. yes you are right one i am going to buy does not have that symbol(it is phi symbol for diameter), neither it has 18.35 marked.Actually that pic is of also brno sxs i took from web just to show the bore dia.here is the link http://www.gunsite.co.za/forums/showthread.php?29539-Got-this-Cz-brnoactually i want it to be at least one barrel modified (1/2) and no matter other is imp modified or full because for second shot bird will have gone away.
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It's a tough call without knowing the bore dimensions for sure. The one barrel could very well be improved modified as opposed to modified. The other will be full.I guess it's your call on whether you want to acquire it. They are nice guns and very under valued here in Canada. It would not stop me from buying it (obviously as I have 3 of them). Any idea as to why the gun would have went unsold for so many years?
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donot know the exact reason ,.. but may be due to other alternates like multichokes( screw in) , o/u ,.semiauto etc and very few hunters with interests in classic sxs shotguns.
May be one big reason is communication gap ,.. i.e no advertisement of guns here and most of people having a little knowledge about worth and availability of good shotguns
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