"As to the weight/recoil reduction aspect - if you bothered to fit the gun properly recoil would be a non-issue for most people. As I mentioned in the past, I know more than one woman who has no problem with pigeon loads in a gun much lighter than the average trap gun"
That could very well be true , but how many of those pigeon loads do they shoot in a day ? Let them shoot 300 pigeon loads in properly fitted gun that weighs 6 1/2 pounds tomorrow and then shoot 300 pigeon loads in a properly fitted gun that weighs 8 1/2 pounds the following day . Then ask them which gun had less felt recoil at the end of the day .