MOI is independent of weight and balance; a light gun can have higher MOI if the weight is moved far enough (near muzzle and butt) from the balance point and vice-versa.
DDA
Like the little Yildiz .410 S x S with the alloy receiver.
Well explained, Don, once again. This was a revelation when Don helped me understand it. I had been a shotgunner all my life, and tossed around words like "balance" and "feel" and "swing" to attempt to describe the differences in shotguns, but when I spent a little time with Don and he showed this principle to me it was literally an epiphany. It is so nice to really understand the dynamics of a gun, and why they feel like they do.
We owe Don a huge thank you for bringing this to the forefront by building this MOI measuring device and spending so much of his time measuring our guns, to say nothing of the database he is compiling. It alone could help tremendously in determining how a gun will handle for us, before purchasing.
SRH
