In the spring of 1973 when I was 14 I used some calf money to buy a Sears brand 12 gauge pump, someone told me it was made by High Standard. I don't remember how much it cost but it was cheap, even cheaper since my father worked for Sears. The shotgun functioned perfectly but I couldn't hit anything with it. We had an ancient SxS 16 gauge I was good with and a single shot Beretta 20 gauge I was deadly with so in retrospect I'm sure it was a fit issue. All of my family's guns were stolen when I was in college. I sorely miss all of them except for the Sears pump. To add insult to injury the thief was my brother who was a junkie.