In the 1970's I bought my wife a Breda O/U 12ga that was extremely light yet steel framed, double trigger, no rib, pretty sure it was real close to 6# and it would leave her face black and blue even with light loads. I sold it off and got her an Ithaca Ultra-Featherwight English 20ga. It felt about the same weight, fit her better and was much kinder to her, she killed alot of birds with it. Her trap and skeet guns were 870's she shot doubles trap and skeet with them and there are few that could work a pump like her, I couldn't. I'd hear coments like "I didn't even see the slide move".
Now if you could get him into a SxS you could get under 6# pretty easy.
There is always the Bretton but I think they had an alloy frame.
Last edited by oskar; 05/13/13 02:30 PM.
