Derya EX1400 Coach: An 18-Inch 12-Gauge Double at $699

Last updated October 2026 · By Nick Hall, tracks every new shotgun launch for USA Gun Shop readers and reads the owner’s manual before the press release

Quick take: Derya has added an 18-inch-barrel version of its EX1400 12-gauge side-by-side, the EX1400 Coach, at the same $699 MSRP as the 24-inch field gun. Derya says it is shipping to dealers now with three choke tubes and an extra pistol-style grip in the box. Measure before you fit that grip, because federal law cares about overall length.

• What it is: A Turkish-built 12-gauge hammer side-by-side with 18-inch barrels, two triggers, a tang safety and a walnut buttstock, listed by Derya at 35 inches overall.
• Price: Derya’s product page shows $699.00 MSRP for the Coach, the same figure as the 24-inch EX1400 Field.
• Where: Derya says the Coach is available now through its authorized dealers nationwide.
• Why it matters: It lists $150 above Stoeger’s walnut 12-gauge Coach Gun and adds screw-in chokes, exposed hammers and a second grip that raises a National Firearms Act question.

The short double is the simplest defensive long gun there is: two barrels, two triggers, nothing to rack. For years one gun has owned the budget end of it, and that gun is the Stoeger. We pulled the product page, the announcement and the owner’s manual straight from Derya so you don’t have to, and the manual is where this one gets interesting.

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What’s in the Derya EX1400 Coach

Derya announced the EX1400 Coach on October 8, 2026, as a second configuration of its EX1400 side-by-side instead of a new model. On Derya’s EX1400 product page you choose EX1400 Coach or EX1400 Field from one listing, and both show an MSRP of $699.00. The Coach carries item number EX1400.12.18.

Derya’s announcement sums up the recipe: “same receiver, shorter barrels, extra grip in the box.” That receiver is mono-block steel in black chrome. The stock is Turkish walnut, the safety sits on the tang and the only sight is a fixed bead.

It’s a hammer gun. Derya’s photos show two exposed hammers and two triggers, and the parts list in the EX1400 manual names a left and a right of each, so there is no barrel selector to think about.

Derya lists a 14.3-inch length of pull and a 4.4-pound trigger pull. That same parts list includes a rubber recoil pad and a single part labeled PULLER with nothing named an ejector, which reads as an extractor gun: it lifts the shells and you pull them.

The manual also names the builder: Parantez R&D Defense, “under the control and supervision of Derya Arms.” Derya describes the whole EX line as shotguns built in Turkey and exported to the United States.

Chambers, Chokes and the 6.61-Pound Question

Derya’s product page does not print a chamber length. The EX1400 manual says its guns have 3-inch (76mm) chambers unless otherwise stated and tells owners to read the gauge and chamber marks on the gun. Do that before you buy a case of 3-inch shells.

The chokes are the part I like. Derya describes “Mobilchoke-threaded barrels with Full, Modified, and Improved Cylinder tubes in the box”, so replacement tubes follow a common pattern instead of a one-off thread. Our shotgun choke explainer covers what each constriction does to a pattern.

The manual’s choke chart prints a no-slugs warning beside the Full and Modified tubes.

Now the weight. Derya’s announcement gives the Coach as 35 inches overall and 6.61 pounds unloaded, and the 35 checks out, since the 24-inch Field is listed at 41 inches. But the spec table on Derya’s product page lists that same 6.61 pounds for the 24-inch gun.

Two guns six inches apart in barrel length do not weigh the same to the hundredth of a pound. So I read 6.61 as a line-wide figure, not a scale reading of the Coach, and it is the only weight Derya has published for either gun.

The Extra Grip and the 26-Inch Line

Derya says every Coach “ships with an extra grip in addition to the walnut buttstock on the gun.” Its own product photo of the Coach shows that grip fitted: a walnut pistol-style grip with no shoulder stock behind it.

First, the easy part. As shipped, with the buttstock on, the Coach needs no federal paperwork beyond the normal dealer transfer. 26 U.S.C. 5845(a) counts “a shotgun having a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length” as an NFA firearm, and 18 inches is not less than 18.

The next clause in that statute is the one to read twice. It also covers “a weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches”. The Coach leaves the factory as a shoulder-stocked shotgun, so the moment the buttstock comes off and the grip goes on, overall length is the number that decides everything, and Derya has not published one for the grip configuration.

Do the arithmetic. At 35 inches overall with 18-inch barrels, there are 17 inches of gun behind the breech with the stock on. With the grip fitted, the gun needs at least 8 inches behind the breech to reach 26.

Eight inches is not much to ask of a full stock. It is a lot to ask of a grip, and the one in Derya’s product photo is short. Do not assume the gun clears 26 inches with it fitted.

Derya’s manual does not settle it. The copy linked from the product page is dated February 2026, before the Coach was announced, and it states: “This firearm, as delivered from the factory, is equipped with a buttstock only.” It then warns that replacing the stock or adding a pistol grip may change the gun’s classification under the National Firearms Act.

So before you swap anything, measure. Federal regulations say overall length is taken between the extreme ends of the weapon, “measured along a line parallel to the center line of the bore.” If yours comes in under 26 inches with the grip on, leave the buttstock where it is, or talk to Derya and your dealer about registration first. Our guide to the National Firearms Act explains what registration involves.

What $699 Buys Against the Stoeger and the CZ

The gun everyone will compare it with is Stoeger’s Coach Gun. Stoeger lists the walnut 12-gauge double-trigger model at $549 MSRP with 20-inch barrels, fixed Improved Cylinder and Modified chokes, 2 3/4-inch and 3-inch chambers, 36.5 inches overall and 6.5 pounds. The black synthetic version is $449.

So the Derya asks $150 more than the walnut Stoeger. For that you get two inches less barrel, a gun 1.5 inches shorter overall, three interchangeable choke tubes where Stoeger fixes two, and exposed hammers.

Go the other way and the gap is wider. CZ lists its Hammer line “from $1,249” MSRP, and that line includes the Hammer Coach with 19-inch barrels and double triggers. The Derya undercuts that starting price by $550.

The EX1400 Coach isn’t a Stoeger clone and it isn’t a case-colored cowboy heirloom. It’s a third thing, closer to a plain working hammer gun with modern choke threads than to either of them. Our roundup of the best side-by-side shotguns lays out the rest of the class.

Derya is the newer name here. It began selling to American consumers in January 2025, and its limited lifetime warranty covers the original owner and does not transfer.

Who an 18-Inch Coach Gun Is For

Derya names four jobs for the Coach: Cowboy Action, truck and boat carry, brush hunting and home defense. They are not equally good fits.

Cowboy Action is the natural home for a hammer double. If you are new to the sport, start with our primer on what Cowboy Action Shooting is, and check your club’s shotgun rules before you buy.

A 35-inch gun also makes sense behind a truck seat, the same case we make in our truck gun roundup.

Home defense is where I would slow down. Two shots, then a reload that means breaking the gun open, clearing two hulls by hand and finding two more shells, with a pair of exposed hammers to manage on top of it, which is a lot to ask of anyone at three in the morning. The pumps and semi-autos in our list of the best home defense shotguns hold more and ask less of you.

And then there is recoil. A 12 gauge at six and a half pounds with buckshot is a handful, and 18-inch barrels with a single bead give you a short sight plane to work with. Worth knowing before the first range trip.

When Can I Buy the Derya EX1400 Coach

Now, per Derya. The announcement says the Coach “is available now through authorized Derya dealers nationwide”, and the product page is live with the Coach selectable. We have not shot one.

In the box you get the gun with its walnut buttstock fitted, the extra grip, the three choke tubes, a Derya bag, the manual, a WTTA flyer, a cleaning cloth and a tool.

Derya also calls the Coach “California, Maryland, and Massachusetts compliant.” That is the maker’s claim, not a legal opinion, so buyers in those states should run item number EX1400.12.18 past a dealer before paying.

Dustin Jones, Vice President of Derya Arms, put the pitch this way in the announcement: “Eighteen-inch barrels, extra grip in the box, same $699. That is what a coach gun is for.”

Two hammers, three chokes, $699. And one grip to measure before you bolt it on.

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