Steve,
Great information!!!

I wish I could find that thread or post I think EDM posted it!!
But that thread really shed some light; not only the price of a firearm in relation to a worker's average salary but how expensive it was to operate that firearm on a day to day basis!!!
So maybe we have it backwards here; the well to do bought the repeaters because they could afford the shells to go with them and the 'workers' had the doubles because of the way they had to hunt…..opportunity hunting!!
I don't know and I don't have the resources to find out.