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Daniel, this gun has a 3" chamber, so you can safely shoot both 2 3/4" and 3" shells. Stay safe & have a great day!

Thus Cimarron Coach Gun has a barrel chamber of 3". You can load in both 2-3/4" & 3" shells.

Hi Daniel and welcome. The Chamber is 3 inches so you can fire any 12ga 3 inch or shorter shells including the mini-shells. Cheers and stay safe!

with its 3 inch chamber it can use any 3 inch or shorter 12 ga ammo "The single best and most economical arm for hunting and defense in the Old West was the side by side double-barreled shotgun. Scores of thousands of these sidehammer scatterguns were a mainstay to settlers miners ranchers gunfighters and virtually anyone who needed a weapon. In times of civil unrest many lawmen considered the scattergun as the best town tamer and express companies especially realized the value of these smoothbores and armed their messengers with them. They each knew the threat of scattered shot from a shotgun's blast had a greater chance of dissuading an unruly crowd or a road agent than would the single projectile from a rifle or pistol. Cimarron's 1878 Coach Gun inspired by an original in our collection is available in either the full-length 26-inch barrel or the 20-inch barreled model both capable of handling 3-inch shotshells with the traditional exposed sidehammers a pistol grip stock and schnabb