Ted:
The gun I could neither mount nor shoot well was a Citori Superlight 20.  I asked about the source of my strange ability to shoot this long-stocked Charlin but didn't suggest I was having any trouble.  The darn thing is ic/full and with PC Post wads in the four marked shells for doubles I'm not going under 21 at skeet.  I can short stroke everything before the stake at 3 and 4 and it's pretty good out of bounds (sporting influence) with either barrel.  I've always "straitened out" high 2 and low 6 with every gun I've shot so a light gun won't change that habit but I like it and I ain't skeereduvit.
And then there are the asteroids (disasteroids?) on an intercepting course and you never know when the Intergalactic Bypass will go thru.  So long . . . etc.  Where's Wonko?  You see "Silent Running" Ted?  Bruce Dern whacks a few shipmates to save the botanicals.  Has that eschaton finality and sadness which you appear to relish.
jack