You're not burting my bubble. I'm sure there are beautiful shotguns from all over the world that are lighter or better made or fancier. My post was not about my L C Smith as such, it was about a person who never held a SxS and thought that SxS's were "old" guns. Old hat, in other words.
The fact that my Smith was lighter and felt better was a function of Smith but it could have been any number of other guns.