Thanks, everyone
Jeff I plan to shoot it once I've had the barrels checked, and as I posted earlier, if they aren't deemed safe or I'm not happy with the numbers I see, I'll let Briley make a set of tubes for me - I've shot pheasant with every thing from a .410 to a 12g - obviously more successful with the larger bores, but never "skunked" by the little gauges either

I'm just trying to get the "crud" off it now.

Tom

I don't want to disagree with a gunsmith but I believe most if not all of the 27" barrels I saw or read about on British shotguns were made long before the Brits adopted the metric system. I might be wrong but I think not.