Wow!! Imagine carrying a gun with a splinter foreend and wearing off all of the blue around the barrels and having your hands sweaty, slipping all over the barrels for the same amount of weight that would equal the amount of the McDonald's big breakfast you put into your stomach on the way to the field that morning! Or, not being able to get a good grip on the barrels for the same amount of weight that would equal a dove or a quail! My goodness, what do you do when you have to carry a pheasant around with you for several hours? Oh, that's right. You have someone (probably the same guy who loads your gun for you) run it back to the house in their four wheeler to keep you from having stroke out in the field from carrying all that dreadful weight. Yes, yes! The women around here have the same problem. But the men love to show off their SXS guns with all of that gorgeous feather crotch wood with the fancy checkering on their guns around here. And none of them have to feel that they are shooting a women's gun.