LG,
My family's 20 gauge single shot is in awful condition. It's a converted trapdoor springfield...typically sold by Bannermans and others. It stayed in Missouri. I can't imagine those hardscrabbled lead mining and farming folks spending more than the minimum required. The game was rabbits, and reason for hunting was primarily the pot. If they could've got a 12 gauge for $1.50 (or whatever they sold for) they would of - no disagreement on the 12 gauge thesis. Before the depression they were getting by, and during the depression the financial screws got cranked down some more. The romantic LG American farmer's gun was probably a judge's or doctor's gun. The small gauges were for the sporting class - folks that hunted for sake of hunting not out of hunger or parsimony. But keep up the romance, that's half the fun!
I have a 1936 Superposed trap gun and I've wondered about the man who had scratch in '36 to order a an $85 gun with an optional $15 vent rib.
Last edited by Yeti; 02/03/07 10:22 AM.
