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Will look forward to your pictures Doverham.

Did a little research on the net after your post. Do see where they make solid ribs for 12 ga Sporting guns as Jaquas has one with 30 inch barrels and Fieldsport has one with 32 inch barrels. Hopefully for 20 ga and smaller down the road. Great to see the double triggers on their smaller gauges.

In reference to your barrel flip questions. Do not know the science but I do have a 32 inch barreled Poli 20 ga SxS. It is stocked the same as my other guns and has the same Point of Impact. But to further confuse the barrel flip issue, for me that is both SxSs and O/Us stocked the same and of different barrel lengths - same POI. Maybe this should be a new thread?

My 32" barreled Guerini 20 ga. arrived yesterday. I took it for a quick test drive, twice around the skeet field at the local fish and game club. Interestingly, the barrels weigh the same as my 32" Beretta SP1 12 ga. (3.25 lbs), even though the SP1 weighs half a pound more (8 lbs.). Somehow, Guerini managed to balance the barrels perfectly and I REALLY like the weigh it handles - it is a bit balance forward, but even shooting unmounted and dealing with some windblown targets, I did not feel any muzzle heaviness or slowness.

I hope to be able to slip down to Addieville in the next couple of weeks to see how it handles SCs, but I can already tell this is a great configuration for non-competitive clays and doves.

Beautiful hammers.

So this is a modern substitute - I had to forego the external hammers but it was also 1/3 the price of used FAMARS Castore.