RE: Help needed -- please read ...
I'd give him the gun he's been borrowing and buy a new one for myself, but it would cost me more than $320. I really think anything you gave him would be a great gift, and the fact that you'd extend this type of "fatherliness" to him would be unforgettable. I've never heard anything bad about Mossbergs, buthaven't heard that much about them at all. If this $320 gun performed as well as the littany of$500-$900 guns that are up and down this forum, I'd think you'd know. With that in mind, this sounds like a good gun, maybe not a great one, but probably not a bad one either. If your comfortable spending that on him and are bent on a new gun, go ahead, he'll definitely love it just based on the thought of it alone. If you could handlebuying him a used one, there are lots of options in that price range.