Who doesn’t love a solid double-barrel shotgun? Especially in a coach gun format? American Tactical Imports is bringing us something called the Road Agent. ATI imports guns from anywhere, and I bet this one will come out of Turkey. That’s where most shotguns seem to be imported from, and they’ve got a long history of double-barrel production.
The Road Agent has retro stylings. The standard Road Agent is a black finish with some silver inlay and 18.5-inch barrels. It’s hammer fired, with a wood stock and forend. The Road Agent Prime is the alternative you get if you want longer barrels, specifically out to 26 inches. The Road Agent also utilizes inlay to make things fancy, as well as a stainless steel receiver with blued barrels.
These hammer-fired double-barrel shotguns have bead sights and, typically, I’d say not much else. The Road Agent has a very interesting hammer setup.
The Road Agent and the Hammer
The two hammers have an interesting safety that goes under the hammers to block them. This is the first hammer-fired double-barrel I’ve ever seen with a safety. The safety lever blocks both hammers. That same safety lever can be pressed past the fire position to decock the hammers. I most certainly have never seen a shotgun with decocking hammers.
It’s cool but kind of a restomod version of the classic coach gun. The Road Agent takes its looks seriously and does seem to favor a stylish flair. The Road Agent series has two triggers and surprisingly smooth trigger pulls.
The forend is large enough to get a good grip to activate a push/pull to mitigate recoil. Handy and light are elements of the gun. We get a gun that weighs less than six pounds and moves with ease. Even with two barrels, a gun can be handy.
The Money
So, a cool coach gun with style and a novel safety/decocker has an MSRP of $599.95, which means maybe around $400 when they get on the market. It’s a fun gun, but you could make it a bang-around working gun. There are admittedly cheaper guns that aren’t so stylish for that task.
The guns are fun, cheap, and look cool. That’s the Matrix I want to hit for my impulse purchases. The ATI Road Agents are shipping now, and it looks like a blast.
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