In my opinion, this gun has never been to a gunsmith, for better or for too many times, worse. The barrels just look like they have been hand cleaned and hand polished many times by an owner who used , not abused, his guns, and cleaned them. The bores are shiny, original diameter, with some frosting near the chokes and chambers as one would expect from a well used gun in the days before shot cups.
Bores are
Right: .665, constriction .022
Left: .668, constriction . 041, typical upland game chokes for the day.
Chambers are the old black powder brass shotshell chambers which I measure at 2 5/8" to the step.
I do not think a gunsmith ever tinkered with the bores nor are the chokes reamed out.
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