My LC Smith Long Range gun, 1923 vintage 32" with 3" chambers- the 3rd one Smith ever made- has very weird bores. Ahead of the forcing cones the bores only measure .705" and stay that way until 6" from the muzzles where the chokes constrict .040 in the right barrel and .045 in the left. Weird. To say it throws tight patterns is an understatement, as proven on the pattern board. The result is quite dead geese even with "light" loads of 1 1/8oz #2 Bisthmus @1250fps, due to goodly numbers of pellet strikes. (I load them in 2 3/4" AA hulls.) The downside is you gotta be dead on when you slap the trigger, not much wiggle room. It did force me to up my game accordingly. I've knocked geese ass-over-tin cups at ridiculously long distances with it and with that load. I refuse to subject it to "modern" 3" magnum loads of any kind.
I was told once it mimics Bert Becker's boring techniques he used in Super Foxes. Dunno for a fact.
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