Ted, I note that on your catalog copy, the 30" 20ga is advertised at 6 3/4#, the 28" gun at 6 1/2. Sounds like you may have won the wood lottery. But in any case, that's not light by 20ga standards. I've seen an Ithaca SKB Model 100 20ga or two with 28" barrels (and all the 20's were 3" guns, except the relatively rare--in sxs--skeet guns) that come in a bit under 6 pounds. Wouldn't like to touch off a 3" mag in any of those . . . and in fact never have. Especially the 30" Richland 707 would probably be OK for no more 3" mags than you'd be likely to use in a day's hunting. Wouldn't want to shoot a round of trap with them, however. But they mostly are--as someone noted--somewhat lower velocity than the 1330fps 12ga 1 1/4 oz load that was the standard for a long time . . . and a whole lot slower than today's 1500 fps 1 1/4 oz 12ga loads.
