Rocketman, as always this is great stuff. By having you in our area and being able to spin and determine the MOI of a number of my own guns, I have learned that I need the center of gravity to be beyond 4 1/2" and the MOI to be greater than 1.4 for me to shoot a gun well.

Your table here shows that those numbers are hard to achieve with guns lighter than 5.4 pounds, I suppose because the weight of the action overcomes the weight of the dainty stock and barrels. So the obvious question is what made the Yildiz relatively barrel heavy?