I have been a fan of the BSS guns for many years. My first one was a 26" gun, current one is a 30". The right barrel came choked at .018" and I had the left opened up to the same constriction. It has shot many, many limits of ducks here in GA, and in AR, TN and MS. It's my beater gun for ducks, and steel shot. I have shot 1 1/4 oz. loads through it for so long that the right barrel became off face. I shimmed it .003" and it just keeps on going. It's shot mostly 4s, with some 3s thrown in. Very few 2s. No visible barrel damage after all these years.
I agree with Joe about straight grips on heavy recoiling guns, like duck guns. Mr. Nash notwithstanding, I cannot get on a duck with the second barrel as fast with a straight grip gun as I can with a pistol grip one. I have a nice 32" barreled Fox A grade with 3" chambers, straight grip, that I have given up using with heavy loads. My pistol grip 32" HE grade, with bismuth, is the deadliest duck gun I've ever had in my hands. Oh how I wish I could use it with some of my vintage 1 3/8 oz. Super X lead loads, on some "tall ones". I love straight grips on little guns, having two 30" barreled .410 S X S dove guns stocked that way. Recoil doesn't bother me per se, just in how it slows me acquiring the second bird, with a straight grip gun.
BSS and ducks..........
Oh yeah, I can't get the 26" BSS back from the cat .......... he prefers 1 oz. of 9s.
