Quote: Interesting guards on the barrels - they must get hot, at time. Can't imagine what it would have been like with black powder loads. Just shooting a few thrown clays, heats up the tubes immensely in a splinter-forend SxS.
I shoot with a straight left arm,meaning that my left hand is not on the forend, so the guard is useful when the shooting is "hot". I also wear a glove on my left hand.