Some year or more ago purchased subject shotgun primarily due to it's functional hammer/sidelock design just for notalgic reasons. Shortly after purchase took to creek bank and touched off two rounds just to see if it would actually shoot. No problem, but only last week or so had occasion to shoot some trap and thought I would give it a try. Many years ago very active shooting trap w/ Mod. 12's, Brng.Broadway, Win.M21, etc. and did not expect good results with this gun. Well,gun shoots very well from 16yd to 26yd and well pleased with it. As most know, gun is made in Turkey and for the price(retails in $900.00 range) fit and finish is not bad at all. Bores/chambers as well as surface(black chrome) and seems to be pretty durable. Will the sidelocks/leaf springs give long service as used in trap shooting, don't know, but fairly basic repairs if needed, probably know a lot more after a few thousand rounds. Gun is very, very tight and difficult to open and close. Comes with 5 choke tubes and used Mod. and Imp Mod. for this occasion. Trigger pull is heavy, but useable and noted that the right trigger is a bit of a reach for me and causes the trigger guard to bump against middle finger upon recoil. Switched to left barrel/trigger, change around tubes and solved the problem. Should mention that the stocks on these guns are touted to be of Turkish walnut and mine are nice w/ tiger striping and some marbleing. Did see one at Cabelas and wood on it was very basic, so guess you take your chances. The hammer gun is not a popular items these days, but if interested believe you would find this offering by CZ a lot of shotgun for the money. Got a lot of attention at the club and a lot of them was not aware such a shotgun was available other than those from Europe w/ considerable higher prices.

The Huglu-made CZ's seem to be quite serviceable. I've owned a SxS 28 gauge for several years and have no complaints about it.

And while the walnut used in them varies, some of it would be very appealing if CZ didn't use such an opaque finish on them (more like paint) that obscures the grain. I suspect that they are using a combination one-step stain/finish for reasons of cost, but I'd urge them to spend another five bucks and give the consumer a clearer finish that shows the wood underneath.

Stonecreek,
As for the finish of the stocks, you are spot on for even though the wood on mine is very nice with lots of tiger striping, swirls, etc., lot of it is covered w/ whatever finish they use. Now that winter has hit here plan on stripping it and do a wet sand/oil finish on it and believe that will bring out the true nature of the wood. Glad to hear that you get along with their SxS 28gauge. Been thinking of one of those, but in 20gauge for skeet purposes. Decent SxS shotguns are rare these days at a reasonable price.

The main reason I bought the 28 ga. is that each gauge is built on a frame that is specifically sized to it. That makes the little 28 a beautifully trim and svelt little scattergun.

I'm hit-and-miss when I attempt to refinish wood, so I'm leaving mine alone, but its appearance would hugely benefit from a professional-quality refinish like the one you describe. CZ could easily charge another $100 retail price if they bothered to spend pennies more on the wood finishing process.