Daryl:
This was part of growing up poor or frugal whichever you prefer in the Mid West. My friends were all farm boys and we hunted with whatever was available and had a ball doing it.
I scraped together $140,saving for months, as I remember it to buy a Sterlingworth in 1966 and felt like I had the finest shotgun available. No one looked down their noses at Stevens 311s at that time and they were considered a very desireable gun. The thought of owning an imported British gun of any grade was totally alien to all of us. How times have changed.
Jim

The 2nd Amendment IS an unalienable right.