Got the gun yesterday. Seemed pretty decent in an overall sense. I'm used to a bit more refinement in a double but I wasn't disappointing by the weight or even the fit and finish. The triggers weren't great but they seemed serviceable (nice break, no creep). Did my background check, looked at a sweet & light little Verny Carron 16 for $2700 that somebody had buggered the screws on (damn shame!) and brought the $600 Bobwhite home. Took it up to a buddy's house this morning to put a trigger gauge on it. Front trigger broke at 6 1/2 lbs, the back trigger exceeded the 8-lb scale(!). Extrapolating past the 8-lb point on the RCBS unit, it let go around roughly 9 1/2 lbs. Oh well...thank goodness for the free shipping and service option. Other than the triggers...I'm still impressed. The action body is significantly smaller and less-blocky than the earlier Bobwhite versions I'd seen, and the barrels aren't excessively heavy either, even with the choke tubes ( I had a DeHaan Huglu 20 bore in the late 90s that couldn't make that claim). At the reportedly 7.3 lbs (haven't properly weighed it just yet) it's a pretty serviceable 12-gauge. Once the triggers have been put right, it would be fair to call it the doublegun equivalent of a Remington 870. This gun in 20, at nearer the 6-lb mark could be a fairly serious upland birdgun I suspect.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 12/04/19 09:08 PM.
