I have owned two from BC Miroku and one by Nikko and these were not "questionable". All were excellent guns for their price range. I would seek out older ones like Sakaba 'Royal' BLNE since these were puropse built upland guns. Most of those recent ones are bit on the heavy side so they're make pretty darn good waterfowlers guns. The BSS BLE and O-K Heavy Duck' with 30" tubes were representative of this "fowling" breed.
These are the guns HS CD was probably designed for.