I know that there were some lighter Ithaca guns made, but as a general rule most American guns (doubles included) are seldom very light.

This is for lots of reasons (mass-production needs, anticipated hard use, maintaining a reputation, etc.) but the few lighter examples available have always commanded exceptionally high prices here, thus my ongoing interest in English guns over the years. For the money, a solid English boxlock is pretty hard to beat. It'd be fun to wingshoot with an early American double (& even a Damascus one), but I've never been able to put it all together (fit, affordability, & dependable function). You hear about a few lighter subgauge AH Fox guns, or Parkers, or even a few of the Ithaca variants, but you seldom see them for sale in reasonable shape or for a reasonable price (& I know reasonable means different things to different people, but for me that was around $1,500 for many years). Cost justifying any more money for such a "toy" got to be very hard going much past that point.

On another note, out of curiosity I called the folks I bought the gun from yesterday and asked them about the C & R exemption for a gun older than 50-years and they told me that if any firearm is newer than 1898, Colorado now requires the full 3-day wait, with no exceptions (and this was from the owner of this now long-established business). I'm not sure he's entirely right about that but he wasn't willing to listen to me, stating that those are his current business rules. As I mentioned earlier, these folks deal mainly in black guns and handguns so they haven't bothered to learn much about the more-obscure peripheral stuff.

Not a big deal either way for me, but it shows you how fearful these local gunshop owners are these days.

Last edited by Lloyd3; 04/18/25 05:21 PM.