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Fishdock,

I agree! One could shoot and hunt with a rifled slug barrel on a pump or autoloader but a rifled SxS, that's like an elephant gun for shotgun only deer zones! For those of us who read Capstick and Colonel Corbett when we were young perhaps the thought of owning a double rifle, or in this case a double rifled shotgun, will bring back the dreams of our youth?

Mark

There are many areas where rifles aren't allowed for deer hunting. In Ohio I can use archery equipment, shotgun, handgun or muzzleloader. Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, New York to name a few are similar.

You can put rifled barrels on a 20 gauge, but you can't put choke tubes in a 16. Yea you've got the market figured out there.

Sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. I haven't hunted deer with a gun since 1997 (Ohio, and I primarily bowhunt), but this would be tempting. For some reason, I can't see the pictures(?). Any links to other photos? I would order one as soon as they start the ads. This with a second set of 30" multi-choked barrels would be delightful. So, there's a market of at least one buyer...

Keadog,

What a great idea! 22" rifled and 30" multi-choked barrels! I want one...

I do 90% of my deer hunting with shotgun and slugs, great idea.

Based on a couple of comments here it may be that there is some misconseption as to how powerful the typical 20 ga sabot load is. On average they throw a 260 grain bullet at somewhere between 1600 and 1900 FPS. In essence not much different than a very hot .44 magnum out of a levergun.

Of course what someone with a reloader and those brass cases and full sized bullets (62 cal)might come up with is another thing. Which brings me back to thinking about shooting a load such as that out of a 6 3/4 pound gun!!!!!

You won't even notice it when a 500 lb. boar with 5" ivories is bearing down on you through the palmettos. That's a promise.

I use a Ruger N0.1 in .45-70 with either a Barnes Original 300gr. or a Rem. HP 300 gr. at 2300 fps. Have been using a Leupold M8-3X but plan to switch to a big aperture and moonlight front ivory bead for the thick stuff.

Thanks for the post. Stan

Thanks so much for putting this thread up. I have been looking for one of these for a couple years - no one makes one new to be sold in this country as far as I can tell. I got an e-brochure today and am ordering one in the AM: pistol grip, beavertail, double triggers and one of the wood upgrades to be decided after talking with the folks at CSMC. Not getting assisted opening as not many successful third shots where I hunt. I love pretty wood but this gun will be a shooter, so I'm not sure what to do about that. Any thoughts on that?
BTW, the answer I received to my question indicated the barrels will NOT interchange with the RBL (I was thinking of buying one of the available RBLs to use in sporting clays now and ordering a set of rifled barrels). No ETA on delivery.
I bet they sell a lot (but I'm usually wrong on this stuff). Lots of shotgun only places and it would be a fun hog gun too. I may actually gun hunt next year here in Ohio (although I'm guessing I won't have it by then). I usually bowhunt through the entire season but I'm excited to get this thing.

I had a 12ga benelli black eagle (3" gun) and it wt less than this darling, and I shot a ba'ar with a brenke 1 3/8oz 3" mag slug, now THAT is recoil............

Gary