Assume you're speaking of the sxs. I'm pretty certain 12ga weight is not 6 1/4. I was doing an article on Fausti Stefano, the Italian company that makes these guns for Marlin, and weighed one of their 20's as part of my research. (Did not get a chance to shoot one.) It weighed about 6 1/4 as I recall.
The gun is basically the same, other than cosmetics, as the Weatherby Athena d'Italia. I did get a chance to shoot one of those and thought it was a pretty decent gun. The Marlin Elsie is several hundred dollars cheaper.
