Number three sounds like the best option, based on your assertion that you love the gun.
I have a little Dickson (box lock, not round box action) 28 bore that Jack Rowe told me the barrels had been cut (it is 26”). It’s choked cylinder/full, but the full choke is very, very short. That full tube is not perfectly good regulated. I fretted over it for years while using it almost exclusively for all but the rare pheasant hunt. I killed more birds with the gun than I care to report. I never did get that left tube regulated.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
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