While many think of quite long barrels for "Pigeon Guns" Capt. Money in his book spent quite a bit of space on why 30-inch is right. When Remington made their Model 3200 Flyer Gun it had 28-inch barrels.
Homer Clark, Jr. won the World Flyer Championship in 1949 and 1951 with a rather short barrel Ithaca NID --
Donald Whittaker states in his article in
The Double Gun Journal, Volume Four, Issue 2, that they were 25 1/4 inch?!? In the same article he states his mentor Billy Perdue suggests that 28-, 29- or 30-inch is best.
