Jim, I understand your humour about the disposable shotgun. Where I was raised , in Iowa on the farm, we did not have expensive anything. Everything we bought was "used" a lot. It is hard to find a higher grade gun there, but in New York, or California, or Michigan or Pennsylvania there were higher grade guns. I put a Stevens 375 on the For Sale section of this website, but people do not apparently know what a fine gun Stevens made. In 1885 there were British guns sold over here that were , maybe a tenth, the cost of an American one. Of course they were not the best the Brits had to offer.

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