I'd have to reserve my comments about ribless guns until I actually shot one several outings to compare it to ribbed guns. Looks, and catching weeds or not, have nothing to do with how well you shoot it. If you can shoot one just as well as a ribless gun, great. I surmise that I likely could not. BICBW. And, lighter weight barrels are not necessarily a plus.

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