It was an attempt to create and fill a specialty niche. A 12 which could be made as light as a 20, shoot a payload which had a very short shot string, which was about what a 20 would shoot. I don't think our British cousins ever had the mania for small bores like we do over here. Small bores were seen as guns for youths, females and old men. A 12, even a 2" 12, would be seen as a mans gun.

The one I had was just an ounce or two over five pounds. Choked what patterned like tight IM and LtM. Very fast swinging gun which had a small bore feel to it. One of the reasons I let it go it was very limited by the shell payload and the fact that I had multiple small bores that did the same thing.