Club - NO. Just because some of you like some light weight girly gun,lets not call a well made American SxS a club. A couple of years ago a good friend and I decided to attend the Southern SxS Shoot. There he bought this nice, light weight Johnson, a English made gun. One of those " wands " as some of you like to think of them. We had my trunk open and our two guns leaning against it as we were getting some shells to shoot. Now he just had it about 10 minutes - and the two guns both slid off to the side, his gun landing on top of mine on the ground. After a couple of choice words we picked them up. There was a dent in his barrels. I said with a smile " didn't hurt my Parker boat anchor. " After a " fu** you " from him, we found a nice fellow under the LC Smith tent to removed the dent. Moral of the story - if you want a wand with light thin barrels, fine. If you want a gun that weighs a bit more with thick barrels that were made for the American sportsmen that would shoot heavy duck and goose loads, that's fun to shoot a hundred birds of SC's and not beat you to death, that you're not constantly worrying about denting, etc, etc, then buy a "club." I like my Parkers and Remingtons just fine, thank you. To each their own.
