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On the other hand, if you start with a 26" barrel set and want the versatility of screw-in chokes, you're stuck with cutting off two inches of barrel length to install the screw-ins.

I can't comment on the resulting balance of what this guy did, but the 24" barrels don't automatically disqualify the gun for close up shooting in my experience. I used to shoot a 311 riot/police gun with 24" barrels and open choke. With the tighter shooting steel I killed a lot of long distance ducks with it too...Geo

Speaking of horrors......It's not up for sale so I can't link to it but how about a Lindner Daly Diamond Quality model 275 10 gauge with 22" barrels.

It has, IMHO, better wood and more finely done engraving than the one CJO recently restored. And someone thought it was a good idea to cut 8" or 10" inches off those barrels!!!!

Why would you need to cut the barrels to install screw-ins?

It maybe the tubes were already cut and putting tubes into it made it shootable?

I have never been able to effectively shoot barrels that short, but have had great success with 27 inch barrels and the one 26 inch gun have.

There is no need to cut barrels back to install screw-in choke tubes. The basic requirement that determines whether the procedure can be done on a barrel is the wall thickness at the muzzle. Some are just struck too thin, even for Briley thin walls. And, I have seen some that Briley did that I would not want for myself. After boring, and threading, the barrels were so thin in the choke tube area that I'm sure you could have bent them between your thumb and forefinger. A bump on a hard object, with the choke tube removed, would be disastrous. You could actually see the thread pattern on the outside of the barrel.

SRH

At one of the Vintage Cups at Sandanona we saw and handled an Ithaca Flues Model 10-gauge with factory righteous 22-inch barrels. I don't remember exactly but it included the hang-tag or a letter from Walter, maybe both.

While I'm reluctant to say that 26" bbl.'s were the norm for double guns of the O/U persuation being used for skeet until the mid 70's, they were not uncommon. And while they have fallen out of favor today, they only await some modern Churchill to come along advocationg short bbl.'s to have a new following. I've never found them disadvantagous for low gun skeet, upland game behind a dog or snap shooting dove. Just saying.

The main complaint with the Miroku produced for Browning BSS sidelock is that most were 26� tube guns. I almost fell down when I saw one that had been cut to 24�. Yes, there is at least one guy here who thinks that is OK, but, he hasn�t bought the gun, either, and likely will not.
I have a few guns that are 26�. Some longer, out to 28� and a couple 25�. I�m not buying a double with 24� tubes, and I bet most guys won�t.
George Caswell offered me a Purdey many years ago that had been built for a grouse hunter with 22� tubes, and slim and none chokes. He had all the paperwork to document that, as well. I suppose I would have got a grouse or two with it, and one day I would have been buried with it, too.

Best,
Ted

sadly, many bss guns have been cut down for cowboy action shooting...

i try not to sell bss guns to cba shooters...

Can't go wrong with a nice gun like that! Your choice of chokes makes it an all around upland gun and that includes roosters and sharpies.