I've got a CZ Bobwhite that is a SxS with interchangeable chokes. Nothing fancy, but definitely a fun bird gun! It gets out for sporting clays from time to time as well.Are all side-by-side shotguns imp/mod barrels? Do you ever find them with imp/imp barrel setup? Been looking around with interest at coach guns and the ones that do list the barrels seem to be imp/mod. In all my years (50+ yrs) have never seen anything different. Just wondering.
<>I've got a CZ Bobwhite that is a SxS with interchangeable chokes. Nothing fancy, but definitely a fun bird gun! It gets out for sporting clays from time to time as well.
ETA: Just saw you're talking coach gun.
I believe my Browning BSS is 26" and is Imp/Mod, which is pretty ideal for quail hunting. Works fine for doves, too.Coach guns account for a tiny, tiny fraction of double guns made. Most side by side guns are choked Mod and Full.
Many new guns have screw in chokes.
Barrel length preference for shotguns started out quite long, 30“ to 32”, got shorter, down to 26” in the 1960’s and has been getting longer ever since with the exception of grouse guns. Most shotgunners now want the longer sighting plane. My sxs’s are 28” and 30”.
<>I believe my Browning BSS is 26" and is Imp/Mod, which is pretty ideal for quail hunting. Works fine for doves, too.
<>I once owned an Over/Under Browning Citori 24" barrel - 12 Ga with Invictor Chokes....however I couldn't hit shit with it, like I could with my old Remington 1100 - 20 gauge in a fixed I.C.
I paid piddly for the Remington 1100, which I would smack dove outta the sky with, with great ease, but after roughly shooting thousands of rounds thru it, it quit working properly.
So, thinking the Browning would be my new dove gun, I plunked down the money for it...and I couldn't hit anything with it...sigh...
It was a beautiful/freaking useless pos....