There's a learning curve involved.
In my case, I took up shooting at age 23 with a Remington 1100 simply because it was all I could afford and pay the rest of the bills too.
Next gun was an O/U.
I managed to live without a SxS shotgun until age 40 or so when my income level marginally improved and I chose to explore additional aspects of the hobby.
There are no end of places where the time and resources expended since then could have gone.
It's a hobby for a special kind of idiot. Not everyone qualifies.
As for A5's, the market went nuts when the gun was discontinued and asking prices were unrealistic for quite some time.
