Wonko, you probably need to reread (or perhaps read for the first time) Zutz' "The Double Shotgun". A lot of lovers of classic sxs are probably put off by the fact that he was not all that high on the British, nor on most of the classic American sxs except the Model 21. But he fooled around with a lot of guns, including those in the economy category. Wrote about a number of those in a collection of his columns called "Grand Old Shotguns".
I had some difficulty relating to him as a bird hunter because he wasn't into dogs. No question that he didn't have McIntosh's talent as a wordsmith, but his stuff was down to earth and practical.
