Rocketman will, indeed, wish to add said gun to the MOI database! Spring Southern it will be.
Buzz, not to pick on you, rather to suggest a different view point. You said, "I have a 5 lb 8 oz 20b I have killed game with but I have a tough time on the skeet field and even though it has perfect balance with 28 inch barrels, I find I stop my swing very easily." "--- even though it has perfect balance ---." Hmmmm, could I suggest that balance be used to mean the teeter-totter point relative to the (front) trigger and not used as a single word to try to sum up handling. Again, not to pick on you but to illustrate the illogic of "balance" as a summation of hamdling. How is it that a gun with "perfect balance" handles poorly on the skeet field? Joe gave the answer. He noted that his new gun has exceedingly light weight and low MOI (muscle effort needed to swing the gun/make it point in a different direction). Joe has a lot of experience shooting low MOI guns; he knows his MOI's because we have measured many of his guns. I can safely say that Joe has "touch;" he is able to shoot low MOI guns well on clays as well as game. Joe didn't mention the actual balance measurement of his gun as it is most likely not an issue for him. It is not uncommon for a person to shoot game relatively well with a lower MOI gun than he will have success with at clay games.
The view point I suggest is to think of handling dimensions in the same way as you think of stock dimensions. If you wish to know your gun's handling, weigh it, balance it, and compare it to the guns in my database until you can get it to a time & place where we can measure it. Just as you develop for yourself a personal set of stock dimensions, so will you want to understand what set(s) of handling dimensions suit you personally.
No offense meant, Buzz, but this is one of my soap box topics.
Questions?
DDA
