Not to be argumentative but my take is that 16 pounds was probably the standard weight for the heavy charge regulated 10 bore version of the gun pictured above. I doubt very much that a rifle bored out to a shotgun would still weigh 16 pounds. That is probably the factory weight of whatever we are looking at. Think about it this way.....even if she is a reworked smooth bore currently, she's much more interesting buffalo medicine than a base model double like a Chapuis 9,3...which costs about the same as the current high bid.

JMHO,

John