Thanks for that information S.I.T
"The smokeless same load was $.46 a box"
Look how expensive shells were also. What, a half days pay for one box of shells for the greater part of Americas workers, that is if and only if they were being paid in real money and not company store scrip. Thats probably why the double was so popular and why there are so many American built hardware type guns today for us to buy, I use that term not to demean but only to distinguish between a guns stock that is built specifically for a customer and one that is not.
The real gem would be to see the tens of thousands of Crescents, Meridens, LC Smiths, Ithacas and many others that have been totally trashed through generations of use, guns that were built to hunt everything from deer to rabbits to birds.