My favorite shooting gun for sporting clays is an ugly LC Smith hammer gun with cut barrels. It is not a collector gun by any stretch of the imagination but a gun that I like to shoot. I do not have that gun as an investment but to have fun with. I will not cut a barrel set, but if the barrels were cut and it is a gun that I want to use I will use it. If the gun was cheaper because of the cut barrels that is a big bonus!
Abn Sarge