There’d be time enough for target loads later. Seriously, I chose it because I wanted to see how the gun would handle a representative. Why this particular load? Well, perhaps I’d been fantasizing about following a beagle in the snow after cottontail in Western Pennsylvania. 6 shells, both barrels exhibited a near-identical leftward bias, most likely a byproduct of those long-ago attempts at opening the chokes up a bit. At 25 yards using 2 ½” Winchester Super-X High Brass No. The “choke alteration” theory was borne out on paper - specifically a patterning target. The upshot here? Let caveat emptor be your guide when buying any vintage, fixed-choke gun. He knows a thing or two about shotguns and his opinions are to be taken seriously. Josh, incidentally, won the Silver Medal at Trap at the 1996 Summer Olympics, worked internationally as a professional shooting instructor for many years and is an expert machinist. I asked a friend, Josh Lakatos, about this and he closely eyeballed the chokes/muzzles and confirmed the alteration theory, also pointing out it had been done unevenly in terms of wall thickness.
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