Its all kinds of little things too. Like beads on the express are pressed in, so you can't replace em. Of course the finish, trigger housing, wood, and barrel quality. I believe they make more reamer runs with 870's. I have one now with chamber out of wack.

But I perfer them over a nice wingmaster.

Where I hunt, is real hunting. Its nasty, its muddy, its cold, its brackish water, its a freaken swamp. Sometimes in a boat. I took out my gold hunter this year, and all I did was worry about messin up this gun.

People get thier guns in the water all the time. If it happens to my 870 express, oh well.