I also shoot pigeons. I would send it to a good choke man and have him clean up the right barrel retaining as much choke as possible. (the "all over the mic" comment worries me). See how it shoots on paper and on birds before you tube it. You might also try RST's pigeon loads and Winchesters. .018 of choke on a first shot using hard 8s can be very effective. I have won most on my matches (not that many but more than a few) using .015 to .020 in my first barrel. I think most pigeon shooters could do with less choke in their first barrel not more. Most first shots out of the trap by an experienced gun strike the bird at 30-33 yards. A good patterning modified chokes is more than sufficient. Having said all that. If you like the gun but insist on "more choke" just put a tube in the right barrel. I have a Purdey pigeon gun with notchless Briley S1s in one of its barrel sets and I recently acquired a 34" 3 frame DHE with Brileys in both barrels (somebody paid $9200 for this gun a Julias a few years ago so I guess Brileys did not destroy its value). I also have a rather rare BSA Magnum Wildfowler BLE with Brileys that I use a a rain gun for waterfowl. A nice double with tubes is still a nice double. I wouldn't have tubed these guns myself but I was happy to buy them with the tubes- just MHO...
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