I have one and love it. It is my primary waterfowl gun. The only thing I could see buying a 870 or mossberg 500 oveer it is that there are more extras on the used market for the other two. I wanted to get a rifled barel for slug hunting, the barel was almost as much as another gun. Run a search for a slug barel for a 870, you will undoubtedly find one somewhere, used, cheap and with rings already mounted.