I've been shopping for a youth shotgun. I've noticed that many of the youth shotguns such as Mossberg's 500 Bantam and Remington's 11-87 and 870 are seemingly single purpose, turkey or rifled for deer, with very short barrels, 21 or 22 inches with only one or no choke tubes. I understand that the idea behind a short barrel is to put the weigh in the rear so the firearm is easier to control for the youth. However, the barrel only adds about 0.1 pound per inch. It seems that if the barrels were a little longer on these youth shotguns it would make them more of an all purpose shotgun. Also, longer 20 ga. after market barrels for these shotguns are not available. For that reason I'm leaning towards purchasing a Mossberg SA-20 Bantam or CZ 720 youth in 20 ga. Both are imported semi-autos with 24 inch barrels and can be found for under $500. It makes me wonder why American firearm manufacturers can't make a dependable youth 20 ga. semi-auto that are competitively priced or sell upland/waterfowl after market barrels for their youth products?