A gun isn't a painting or sculpture. Perhaps choose one you shoot well, and bring it in line with how you would have ordered it.
My Tobin 16 was built about 60 seasons before I was born, with full and fuller chokes in undersize bores. 3" of drop, in vanilla plain wood in a capped pistol grip style, and, too short for most upright primates born since 1900, or so.
Randy Murray restocked it, in very nice English, in my dimensions, with an English straight grip, and made a fuller forend while he was at it.
The barrels were worked on by the late Stan Baker, who corrected their "smallcomings", and opened the chokes to IC and MOD. They have been reblued. But, that is where I stopped. The gun has perhaps 60% of it's case colors left and a few chewed up screws. Changing that wouldn't have made it shoot any better, and oddly, I like the little bit of character left by the guns flaws, a story told in time. I wanted it for hunting. Thats what I use it for.
Best,
Ted
