To each his own - beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
For me a BTFE serves a few different purposes…
1. It keeps my fingertips away from hot barrels in a fast-paced round of trap or skeet or even 5-stand.
2. While hunting in the cooler months with the smaller gauges a BTFE will help to keep the fingertips of my gloves from interrupting my line of vision along the rib to the quarry.
3. A BTFE gives me something more positive to grasp for better control (for my own style of shooting) for better control of where my shot will be directed.
Yes a SFE is far more classy/classic looking for a SXS but the BTFE or “trap” forend was designed/invented for a specific purpose and for me they fulfill that purpose quite handily.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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