RE: Good shotgun for newbie
Either a Remington or a Mossberg would be a good choice. You can get both of them in some kind of a combo that will have a smoothbore barel for turkeys and whatever else you would shoot birdshot or buckshot at and a rifled slug barel for hunting big game. I have a Mossberg 835 turkey gun and bought a rifled slug barel with cantilever scope mount on it and it works great for deer with a 3x-9x scope on it.