Good point Mike!!!
I had a Gold Label and loved it and I regret selling it now to restock a now sold Spanish sidelock. The Gold Label is a thoroughbred game gun, but admittedly Ruger stopped building it because of mechanical problems with the design. I believe it was the barrels that was giving owners all of the problems, at least on some other shotgun boards that was the posters major complaint.
But as you say, how were these people using it, as a dedicated target gun for their trap and skeet outings? The Gold Label wasn't built for that as you said and I agree 100%!! Used as it was meant to be used and its a great game gun!!!
But my point is; wouldn't it have been better from a capital outlay point of view to take an existing design, the Red Label, which also has great lines, and smooth it out, reducing the weight to a point where you could call it a game gun???
Excluding the 28 gauge of course!!
