Not always true, many guns were mass produced with little thought going into the gun other than how cheap and how many.
Today's buyer would rather be told its a duck/pigeon gun than a farmer's seed store gun.
Can't agree, LG. The steel in a gun cost a lot of money back then. A cheap gun would have been made as light as the design vs power of likely ammo vs projected number of shooting cycles would allow. The JABC seed store guns, which still had to pass Belgian proof, were made just heavy enough to withstand a reasonable number of American powerful loads; neither unlimited number of cycles nor unlimited power. You have to admit that those old guns were remarkably robust for what they cost. I don't think anyone confuses these with pigeon guns. Duck guns, yes, because that is about what they were. IMO, a duck gun with a typical load also makes a might fine chicken coop varmit gun.
