Tut, how about skeletonizing the buttstock to see how much weight can be saved? I can't remember the name of the British gunmaker who made many guns of this style. Thomas Turner was probably the best known, but there were others. Another trick is to give up the ribs as is done on a few Boss 20 gauges. It's a project gun, right? If you don't do it, I will. I think the target weight should be just under five pounds.
Bill,
Do you mean just under 6 lbs? I think the big issue may be the barrel weight, but I'll talk to PGS about what we can do to the ribs to cut down some weight. If they could take the matting off the top like on the Abby Gun, they should be able to go deeper and take off even more weight. Also, they should be able to skeletonize the receiver (ala like Parker did to cut weight) on the watertable. Perhaps also shave some weight off the forearm iron. Really want this thing at circa 6 lbs if at all possible because it will be carried a lot for sure. They will no doubt have to hollow out the buttstock, this is a pretty dense stick of English I've got set aside for this one. It will really give Dan something to shoot for.
