Opening Chokes

[Richard Flanders]

A nice 28"? #1frame DH12 for a reasonable price would have to have some serious warts to prevent me from begging or buying whatever tool I needed to check the barrels and chokes out. Your brass choke gauge isn't adequate. You can get a relatively inexpensive Enco inside finger dial caliper that will reach I think 3.5" into a barrel and is good to +/-.001". It's what I use for most choke measurement and have found it to work on most Parkers. Are the barrels really 28" and if so, have they been cut? I have a v nice #1 frame 26" damascus GHE12 that only weighs 6#10oz and carries like a 16ga and is a great grouse/woodcock gun. The bbls have been cut and the chokes are open but it papers that way from the factory.