Called Pioneer Arms last week and they are not taking any more orders in 2011 and may not take any in 2012.
If you reload, call around high end shotgun dealers. I'd look at mags like "Shooting Sportsman" or "Sporting Classics" or "Grays Sporting Journal" (all great reads). Anyway, they are full of ads for these sorts of companies. Me, I sold a double hammer Belgian straight stock twenty gauge to New England Arms for $75. Why? It had a damascus barrel and I didn't reload, so I took store credit on salt water flies at wholesale, and was, if not happy, content. The point is, if you'd followed me into the store 15 minutes later with $150 you'd have had a damn nice gun if you were willing to reload or pay for BP shells. If you wanted to make it a coach gun all you'd have needed was a hacksaw and a yardstick to make sure you stayed legal (I'd reccomend 19" if I were doing it myself). Remember, even at CAS loadings, BP buckshot will still ruin your whole day at across the living room distance. Before I dropped a grand or better on a repro, I'd buy a few expensive magazines and make some calls to dealers to see if I couldn't get the real thing for half that or less. Of course it will be a no name gun, as the "usual suspects" will be high dollar, but lots of good stuff was made by small American, French, German, and Belgian companies that no one has ever heard of today. Think the Stevens and Mavericks and Stoegers of their era. Again, it all depends on your willingness to load BP.
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