Missed mail delivery today and have a notice to pick it up tomorrow. Will verify gauge (represented as 12) Maybe someone can quickly determine from SN 48957. The "second chance" gun is still in parts. I expect to get the re-blued barrels from the gun smith this week. My time of late has been given to my wife and that trans-atlantic cruise and now to wild pheasants. VH 104355 has rendered a good account of itself in the field (i.e. when I actually place the pattern in the general vicinity of the bird, then Charlie gets to retrieve). It also harvested (on second shot) my personal best rooster in 41 years of the hunt [36 bars/22" tail with 5/8" razor sharp spurs). My shell/bird ratio is still not great on my return to the sxs view. I do better with the old 870 and the SKB auto but I will keep working on it. I used to have a good ratio with the family VH but it had longer barrels. Mind you, I'm now sporting tri-focals so not really sure what the problem is but I will persevere
Cheers,
Jack