Rarity of various features gets harder to estimate as years go by. Double triggers may be forty percent of the production, but double trigger guns for sale seem to be about two percent. Twenty eight inch barrel single guns, not two barrel sets, may have been forty percent of total production. However, twenty eight inch single barrel set guns are all but nonexistent on the resale market. You see the problem. Only guys who have watched the market frome the beginning can even guess at the percentage of production of various options like single triggers, beavertail forends, straight grips. The thing to remember is that the most wanted options are in collections and only seldom come out for sale. When the market was hot, the 28 gauge two barrel set with double triggers, straight grip, and beavertail sold for up to ten grand a Julia's auction. Now such a gun is about seven or eight thousand, but only if you can find one. Soon, all of this configuration will be in collections. Was it rare when they were in production? Who knows. Who would have thought that the 28" barrel length selection would have made or broken a collector's decision to buy or not. Today, all of the popular options like double triggers, straight grip, and beavertail can be present on a 20 or 28 gauge gun, but, if it has 26" barrels, it will sit on the market until a shooter or hunter comes along. A collector is just not interested. In a few years, things will change.
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