I often wondered why my 12 gauge Uggy Falcon was specified with 3” proof, and a hidden third fastener, yet weighed less than 6 1/2 lbs. The recoil with garden variety 1 1/4” pheasant loads is quite unpleasant.
It would be tough for me to abuse it, in that light.
It gets carried far more than shot.
Best,
Ted
Ted,
Always a pleasure.
Your falcon is what I like to call an "ambiguous shotgun". The less than 6.5 pound weight suggests it falls into the middle of the light game gun, medium game gun, heavy pigeon gun continuum somewhere around the middle of the light game gun range. But the three inch proof suggests it falls into about the middle of the medium game gun range. May I ask its barrel length and weight? That info may help understand where in the continuum the gun falls, and incidentally may help understand what the buyer had in mind when he specified the gun's characteristics at purchase. Or the info may just deepen the mystery.
