Actually, what I wrote was "That would constitute a microscopic proportion of the shotgunning public and even a tiny proportion of potential customers for fine shotguns." What I meant by "fine shotguns" was not autoloaders and pumps (though, to be honest, I love to shoot pumps). What I meant was S/Ss and O/Us (mostly the latter) with starting prices, more or less, in the $3-5,000 range and going up from there. The only real growth in shotgun sports is sporting clays and similar games where O/Us (Perazzi, Krieghoff etc.)dominate, whereas the interest in shooting (really) old guns is confined to a small, insular group that, without meaning too morbid, is getting older and smaller. Going back to the original question of marketability and leaving aside aesthetics, sentimentality etc., I believe that I would rather be selling an item into a market that is relatively large and growing, as opposed to a relatively small and shrinking market.
