Jay, most of my mistakes have been either guns I paid too much for, or else guns I should have kept. The Ruger GL falls into neither of those categories.
There is a range of handling characteristics that are generally regarded as being more appropriate for a game gun than for, say, a pigeon gun or a waterfowl gun. The GL certainly fell within typical game gun weight, which was more or less 6 1/4-6 3/4#. But his machine would have gone further than I'm able to in terms of quantifying how the gun's barrel heavy balance impacted its overall handling. All I know is that it was not what I was looking for. I do give Ruger credit for making a gallant effort . . . which resulted in their learning that making a sxs from scratch without experience can be pretty challenging.
