I had one of the new 37s, in 16 ga. It was well made, reliable, but too heavy. I sold it.
The new ones seem much heavier that the original Models.
Si, magnum receiver (3" introduced as MAG in late 1970s), heaver barrel with choke tubes and denser better quality wood account for extra weight. The weight is about right in 12ga 3" gun but heavy for 20ga. Interesting valiant of full length mag tube are Hogslayers with fully rifled barrels designed to shoot sabot slugs. These would make wonderful HD guns with reduced velocity Truball slugs. During King Ferry days they made model especially to shoot 16ga Lightfield sabot slugs. These 16ga Deerslayers with fully rifled barrels were made in limited numbers, therefore, are uncommon on second-hand market.
