Originally Posted By: WildCattle

S is "Supra" barrel. This was *not* for slug shoooting as much as as for dispersing shot for close range action.


Spot on. The "canon raye" was typically for woodcock guns. I have a Verney-Carron catalog from a few years back, showing an OU with one barrel rifled, the other with choke tubes. It's a 12ga, 61cm (24") barrels. Came with either PG or straight, DT or ST. Weight: 2.5 kg, or 5 1/2 lbs. That model is called a "Grand Becassier", best translated as "Woodcock Special". Beretta offered a somewhat similar OU a few years ago, with a rifled dispersion barrel, for the European market.