I've always been an Ithaca man, but when my son passed his hunter's test and wanted a shotgun we decided to start him with the Mossberg 500 pump.

I'm sure it's not the best gun money can buy, but we got 20g (he's small)a bird barrel, a slug barrel with a cantelevered scope mount, a scope, three chokes, two cheekpads (one montecarlo style), and all the necessary tools for 249 American samolians.

Tough to beat.