I have taken it to the sporting clays range and did well on the closer stuff; I've also taken about a dozen quail around here and some Huns in Canada. I shot a Speckle-bellied goose close and over decoys (two shots of Bismuth).
I have not patterened it but intend to this weekend. My concern was mainly hunting pheasant, where I like a little more choke. For several years, I've shot my Elsie or my Model 12 (both 16s and both very original and with a some choke)...I'll tinker with the pattern board and take it on a pheasant hunt next weekend and see. Perhaps, it will shoot tighter than I think.
Don - when I spoke of the back-boring being "primo", I was not alluding to it being the correct thing to do. Rather, I was stating that whoever did it, was a good craftsman...not just some knot-head with a vise and a reamer. I would rather they not have re-finished it, cut the barrels off, or back-bored it but that was before my time. However, had it never been altered from its original condition, it would have been too "pricey" of a collectable for me.
Thanks all,
Jack
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