Just a comment fwiw from one who's long been interested in vintage doubles and their gunsmithing; it was decades ago when a mentor told me that Parkers have "soft barrels" (steel hardness). Surely a subjective statement and I kind of forgot it until I invested in tooling to do vintage-type re-choking on makers that did taper chokes in their guns. Since then I've opened tight chokes in Foxes, steel-barreled Parkers and Syracuse Lefevers, along with Ithaca, LC Smith and some other makers. It's easy to gauge the cut rate while turning a piloted taper choke reamer from the breech end, and ime Parker steel barrels typically are easiest to ream while opening chokes with that setup. Also, LCS barrels are usually at the other end of the range, much harder. Now, regarding barrel denting while guns are in the field, woods hunting, you can infer what that might mean.
Again this post is merely for info/fwiw. Please, I'm not looking to do tapered-choke work except on my own guns and on occasion for good friends.
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