The LGS had a CZ hammer coach setting out. I have no idea why I want one, but I do. A “rabbit ear” coach gun has been on my list since about my first episode of Gunsmoke! I gotta go out of town for a few days. If it still there next week it may very well come home. Wouldn’t be the worst $800 I ever spent.
Of course 20" barrels seem awful long.
14" barrels would look so much nicer… aarggh!
I need help, psychiatry referrals welcome.
“You’re not going to leave that old Greener on cock are you?” - Prisoner to about to nap J.D. Cahill.
I’m interested in something like that, 50 state travel legal and breaks down to a smaller package.
I’ve avoided buying one by having specific requirements that are not common or cheap. I want to minimize training a bunch on a low use unusual manual of arms. So no hammers or double triggers for me. Recoil reset single triggers are not reliable enough and mechanical single triggers are only on more expensive doubles.
Well, i’ve regretted selling the old baikal hammer double I had ever since selling it, almost 20yrs ago.
It had 24" barrels though, was the same oal of my 20" lever gun.
I did use it for cas comp, so, there are ways to run a hammer double quickly.
I sold off my old Rossi Coach gun (20" barrels) years ago when I bought another Rossi with 28" barrels to squirrel hunt with. Just something about carrying a side by side that felt right.
They arent that long even with 20 inch barrels.
No receiver makes the 5 or 6 inches shorter than a pump or semi.
They almost always need the stock shortened. That removes another couple inches.
Unfortunately I couldn’t buy it this week. I ran across a fellow looking to sell a horde of Federal 13300 buckshot. Couldn’t pass it up, it’s my favorite 12g load and it’s been damned hard to find. It cost me $1.50/shell. Kinda high but…
I’d like to have it but gotta be able to feed the guns I already have first. I’ll see if it is still there once the funds are available.
I kinda get where you’re coming from, I’ve been looking for an SxS that Doc Holliday woulda been comfortable with as a “Street Howitzer” ever since Tombstone came out. Missed out on the Baikals and EAA Bounty Hunters between age and not having a credit card yet, and no chance in Hell I’ll ever be able to afford a vintage Greener…
I forgot about the rossi coach gun I had in the 80s…
Consider the Yldiz doubles. They are pretty nice. (Turkey)
I haven’t seen a shorter-barreled one but could be cut down. You’d lose the chokes of course. They come threaded and with additional choke tubes.
They have some very desirable features like no auto-safety and actual shell ejectors.
We’ve got a 20 and 28 in the family. Both work great. Some brand shells eject better than others. They also make 16, .410, and 12 gauge. O/U and SxS. No rabbit ears, though.
I hear you…
I have a CZ Hammer Classic (the 30" barrels, and screw-in chokes) on my wish list. I like the “coach” gun, too, but my “practical” side wants something I can actually “use” to shoot trap or go pheasant hunting.
(Nevermind that I have a couple Benelli M1/M2s that already do that just fine.)
Yeah, I know it ain’t practical, tactical, or even really useful. Like you I have other shotguns, 2 500’s, a 590 treated to Hans Vang’s full treatment, a Saiga 12, and a Win 97. All of those would serve me better in a defensive situation, not that any shotty is even at the top of my list. A rabbit eared coach gun lost its claim as a valid defensive weapon somewhere before 1900. It really doesn’t deserve a place in my stable.
But to quote Clint, “Deserve’s got nothin to do with it”
I bought an N-Frame S&W last year… Same thing. I have lots of Glocks, but there was just something cool about the big revolver.
A nod to practicality: I bought a 610, which shoots 10mm in moon clips, so I can use the same ammo (.40S&W) that I use in my other handguns…
So yeah, if/when I buy a SxS, then it’ll be a 12ga, because my Benellis are 12ga, and I don’t want to start stockpiling 20ga or whatever, too.
I’ve a 4 inch 5 shot .44 Special revolver. Same thing.
If using shotshells against people is a possibility of course you want 12 ga.
Or against geese, which is one of my ambitions.
Anyway, it’s not that 12ga is bigger and better, it’s that the whole Benelli aftermarket is geared to the 12ga (nevermind that Benelli makes the M2 in 20ga, too).
At last count, I have 13 different cartridges that I stockpile and/or reload for, and there is not going to be a #14!
I can’t think of a reason to go 20ga unless it’s someone who can’t handle 12ga. Competition purposes aside. 12ga is kinda the floor for me, and I don’t personally have a need to go to magnum or 10ga.
On the CZ front, went in today and it was sold. I was looking at 22 bolt guns but saw they had a couple BCM complete lowers in. They are out of BCM lowers now, and my gun allowance is blown for at least a week. Then Form 1 the lowers…
I hear this, too…
I do the same kind of “triage” in buying guns. Before California banned ARs, I bought another lower and registered it.
I only jumped on the S&W because S&W only does a run of 610s every 5-10 years, and the prices and availability are awful when they’re not in production.
Same thing with a Glock 24 slide earlier this year… Glock did a run, so it was now or not-for-a-long-time.
I go through these same phases. I’ll put a RDS on every pistol I own, and then turn around and buy a coach or lever gun. It’s like owning a piece of it puts me in touch with my ancestors.
I’m the same. I find the older I get the broader my shooting interests become. I’ve been shooting since 98 but only noticed lever guns in the last few years. I mean literally noticed. Before I didn’t even see them. I never got to that side of the store. Or I would glaze over all the pile of wood and metal as one whole mess. Now I own 2 and have been interested in a SAA 38/357. Hell I’ve been kicking myself for only now becoming interested in Garands when they’re $2000+
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m cool with older and not-so-tactical/practical. I have my share, and I dig em.
The hammer coach is just an oddball though. A rabbit ear coach gun just screams late 1800’s CQB. Like Bimmer said, the hammer classic is all about fine lines and appreciating the history while still being useful for hunting, clay, etc.
My desire to SBS and maybe even lupara a hammer coach makes me feel a little silly, but I still wanna. 