Originally Posted By: King Brown
My 12ga Francotte and 20ga SKB are 26


King, I think you'll find that your 20ga SKB, at least if it's one of the old Ithaca imports, has 25" barrels, not 26". Not sure why SKB/Ithaca did that, because the shorter barrels on the 12ga guns were 26".

The difference today vs the past is that you don't have any trouble finding new doubles with barrels longer than 26" that also have more open chokes, like IC/M. After the end of the American doublegun industry, on virtually all the imported sxs (and most of the OU's as well), if you wanted chokes as open as IC/M, then you had to buy a gun with 26" barrels. Virtually all the 28" barrel guns were M/F.