Ted, your sense of history of goose shooting, (not hunting), on the East Coast of the USA is seriously lacking. We have gone through some lean times, but now the goose slayers are paying $2200.00 for camo finish 3 1/2" 12 gauge guns to shoot 15 resident geese or 25 snow geese a day. The "Honker" is and was a great gun to shoot a goose or sixty.