I got that cantilever scoped barrel you are talking about. I love the gun. Very accurate. But your right, those barrels are 406 dollars and 300 dollars for a smoothbore. It depends really what you want. I had the other decision to make. I have the deer hunter and wondered about buying the smoothbore for my duckhunting. I decided just to use my 1187 for bird and use the browning only for deer.