Due to lead residue I have a 28 gauge that was ordered F/F but when I first brought it home it measured XXF/XF due to lead fouling and never having been properly cleaned. Obviously happened before shot cups came about.
The factory might have had a slightly different interpretation for chokesX.000" than we do today and shot cups of today play significantly into that.
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