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Originally Posted by Rich Anderson
In all honesty I don't hunt with the GHE straight grip 16. I'm to old and to fat lug a 7.5 lb. gun through the grouse coverts. I much prefer the sub 6lb guns and while admittedly not a 12ga fan I am looking forward to hunting with a British "Light Game Gun" with some 2 inch RST paper shells this fall.
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Rich,
I'm getting to the too old, too fat point myself. I've always liked lighter guns. When you are a wild quail hunter in Northern Missouri, you walk a heck-of-a lot more than you shoot. I've latched onto 16s for this. I have Fox and Parker 16s that weigh in at under 6 lbs. My favorite gun to carry for quail is a 130 year old Cogswell and Harrison back action hammer gun with 30 inch Damascus barrels. It weighs 5 lbs. 13 ounces. I also have a Whistler 12 that is a smidgen less than 6 lbs, and my grouse gun is a little Dickson box lock (28 gauge) that weighs 5 lbs 3 oz. So, I too enjoy carrying light. I know lots of the folks on the site like to shoot clays and shoot a great deal, but for me, walking as much as I do (and as much as I can), the lighter the gun, the better. I shoot about the same with a light gun as I do with one that's heavier (as my 30-plus years of records show), but my tendinitis is better carrying a sub-6 gun. ;-)
I hope you enjoy your light loads and English gun. Thanks again for sharing your guns' weights. It was my quest for lighter Parkers that started this thread in the first place.
Take care!
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