My mother-in-law has her 20 Stevens double with the plastic stock from the late 40s. Her dad raised beagles and wanted her to hunt rabbits with him. It came from a hardware store on Long Island.
My neighbor got a Stevens 311 20 for quail hunting. His dad said he could get a bigger gun once he grew large enough.
My great grandfather bought a single shot .410 for my grandmother's brothers to hunt rabbits. If they got a rabbit, they got another shell. One uncle missed, got mad and busted the stock. We found the little gun still broken in the back of a closet 20 years ago and gave it to the surviving uncle.
Joe