The "go ahead and open the chokes, it's your gun", versus the "keep it original" argument is surely a never-ending debate. But, I enjoy following it wherever it leads. The battle lines may be irreconcilable, but that does not prevent me from learning something new each time the topic is brought up.
This may stir things further: Spreader loads can compensate for all the older, tightly-choked Parker guns, but, admittedly only minimally -- given that the shot charge of a modified-equivalent may not be open enough for the grouse woods. But, once you open the chokes, is there any going back? Do you shift to "constrictor" loads, after opening up your factory-choked gun, if later in life you get a chance to hunt the broad expanses of the American West for upland game where longer shots are the norm?
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