I still have my PA hunting license from 1963 when Dad was attending the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks. That prohibition on selfloaders was in the hunting laws booklet. Then.
I don’t hunt much anymore and my .45 automatic wouldn’t be much of a gamegetter anyway. But at the time I wanted a Browning A-5 for Christmas worse than anything; Dad gave me a Remington 870 which I still have. Loved the Browning but the 870 is more practical IMO. Did shoot a lot of skeet with a borrowed Remington Model 11, almost the same gun as the A-5.
There are folks that collect old hunting licenses, quite a market I guess. That said, I’ve always liked Browning designed shotguns and even if you can’t hunt with it there are still plenty of reasons to have a semi auto shotgun handy.