The thing is, I feel, that the designations of lower-end Brit guns doesn't always reflect the people who actually bought these guns. As is the common knowledge, ever since George III (?), only the well-to-do could hunt legally. And if one could afford paying 4 pounds a year for a shooting license, one could also afford a pretty decent gun, at about at least 20 to 40 pound range (allowing 4 pounds over 5 or 10 years). However, reading any period book on shooting gives you the feeling that poaching was widespread and almost anyone in Brit countryside had a gun, and of course these weren't the 'best' type or even close. It would be embarrassing for the trade to admit they were supplying poachers, so they probably had to make believe the low-end guns were for the keepers, or for the colonies, or for export in general (Greener calls these 'export grade' guns, if I'm not mistaken).
