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Mike, the big differences are longevity, reliability and esthetics. Good guns are made more carefully, thus cost more.Things like clean, light triggers, bbl regulation on doubles, bores of optimum profile, and better metal demand higher prices.
The nicest thing about modern shotgunning,tho, is that reasonably effective,reliable,long lived shotguns are available to the masses. A contemporary shotgunner gets better equipped for less money(Assuming adjustment for inflation) than their grandfathers/mothers did.
Great Grandpa's hardware store Crescent double or it's equivalent cost about $17. I can go out and get a decent pump for $200 or so. That $17 was two weeks pay, that $200 is a couple days worth.
And it ain't the piano, it's the pianist.
Geoff, gun snobbery runs both ways. Of the two biggest jerks I even met on a trap range, one had a Ljutic, the other a "Ranger".
All I ask of the shotgun someone else bought is that he/she shoot it safely and ethically. It's his/her money....
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