That's a beautiful sidelever Harold! I have a couple of light Parker hammers, but they are a couple I bought due to them being relatively hard to find types to fill slots and they are more display guns than solid users. One for instance is an O frame 16 gauge top lever transition model hammer gun. I bought it cheap, addressed some issues and have it as a representative example of the type. I don't consider it robust enough to hunt with but it serves it's place. I have quite a few lighter 12 and 10 hammer guns, but they are not my idea of upland guns in the desired sense. On the other hand, almost every hammerless I own is a classic upland gun, simply because those are the guns that I use and enjoy and they are relatively easy to find.
On the other end of the spectrum I own an English 8 bore hammer gun circa 1874-75 that is as light as a lot of the 12 bore Parker hammer guns I own. It is short barreled and has plenty of wall thickness but is just a very trim and light 8 gauge (how often do you get to use that term?
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