Ken, thank you. As for your question, all pictured guns are MTs-9. What I meant is that in TsKIB's book MTs-9 was a Trap gun, so it came with 750 mm barrels, "4" and "5" chokes, period. Even if you ordered one for hunting or as a gift - as most customers seemed to do - you couldn't get a different barrel length or chokes. Unless, perhaps, you had the connections. On the other hand, engraving was an option, so it was negotiable. That's how I see it, of course. Igor Robertovich will correct me if I'm wrong.
UPD. But generally speaking, Russian gunmakers never had a hard and fast rule about the match between engraving and the intended purpose of the gun. Probably because we never really followed the "different game, different gun" philosophy; a Russian hunting shotgun is one gun that you use on anything from snipe to bear with some clays on the side. So the appearance of a game scene on a Trap gun wouldn't surprize me.
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