OK, Jaycee, you're on!! For starters I have three Model 21s with splinters that I will be willing to let you have for around 12 grand- total. I only bought them for investment and can't stand to shoot them with the splinter forends. And since I still have six with the BTFE, I will be more than happy to let you have them for that. Please let me know if you are serious. And Larry, I know you think you always know all about people, but you don't know how I shoot or hunt. I carry a Model 21 all day long when I pheasant, rabbit or squirrel hunt and it does have a BTFE. And a few extra ounces on a gun has never bothered me. People switch from a lighter gun to a heavier SXS and never think about hunting with it. But, they see a BTFE and OH!! that BTFE makes a gun so heavy!! Ridiculous!! And it is probably just as hot and tiring to shoot a hundred rounds at clays in a day, as it is to shoot five or six rounds in the field in a day. I do both. I like to have good contact/control with a gun, so I always use a BTFE. Now, I am sorry guys but after 45 years of hunting, shooting and collecting, I have a great distaste for a splinter forend. They are skimpy little things that are ugly and worthless to me. That's my opinion. Sorry. But good luck to all of you.