I hit the Pawn shops a couple weeks a go and saw a few shotguns - some in pretty sorry shape that I would have considered using as parts guns, but the shops all thought they were worth a lot more that I did. I actually found the best price on a couple nice shotguns at a gun shop in Joplin (he had a couple new combo's on the shelf for a decent price as well). Another shop there has several 45-70's, one at a decent price (it needed some TLC) but was pretty high on the shotguns. I just hate to part out a nice gun. I guess that is one reason I like the idea of using a monoblock, like Pineycreek22 is looking at.