The various Browning/Winchester single shots usually have excellent barrels, but I don't like a barrel that short, and I really don't like the slick steel buttplates. 22" seems to me to be a happy minimum - handy inside a blind, and still shorter than a magazine rifle. I have a #1 in .44 mag with a 20" barrel, and have been tempted to either rebarrel it, or sell it, despite having nice wood.
