Why has nobody made a SxS "firearm" like the Shockwave with a 14" barrel and a bird's head grip? I feel like that would sell really well, it'd be like a mad Max style "sawed off" shotgun.
Come on gun manufacturers!
Come on gun manufacturers!
The judging from the Mossberg Shockwave and the Henry Axe an "other firearm" capable of firing shot gunshells has to be 26" overall.
There were short stocked 12ga shotguns just over 26" with 18.5" barrels on the market decades ago marketed as The SOB and The Brute, legally shotguns, that didn't catch on.
I looked into the OP's question a couple years ago when the Shockwave came out. The answer is that the relatively short receiver on a single or double barrel break open shotgun prevents the barrels from being shorter than 20 or 21" using a pistol grip stock. In other words, if you cut the stock down to a pistol grip/birdshead grip, the barrels have to be about 20" to meet the OAL of 26" as an "other" firearm. And with 20" bbls it is still a shotgun. It is still the same OAL as a Shockwave but also still a legal shotgun. Therefore you could cut a single/double barrel down to Shockwave length as long at you kept the barrels at least 18+" and the OAL at least 26". But whatever you take off the barrels you have to add to the stock and vice versa.
So technically you could have 14" bbls on a break open SG but the receiver would have to come from the factory without a stock and the pistol grip would have to be extended to meet the 26" OAL.
Examples of Shockwave size breakopens...not mine
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I have been waiting for a “just-right” pre-owned double shotgun, to appear on the rack at a local gun store, to serve as the base weapon for such a project. I do not want cheap junk, so, a somewhat nicer gun, but perhaps with a bubba’ed stock, is my desired target.
;The reality of these pistols is far from what you see on the Magic Screen. Difficult to aim, with massive recoil, definitely not to be fired one handed, as you so often see depicted, in the movies. These super short SXSs may look cool, but they are miserable, to actually shoot.
Get any coach gun, and fire it, one barrel at a time, with only one hand. (do be very careful) Now, try to imagine firing the same gun, with a pistol grip, and even a shorter barrel, rocking the muzzle blast.