It's a good time of year to keep your eye on the on-line aution sites. I was looking last year at getting a cantilever barrel for my son's 870, ended up with a full 870 shotgun with a cantilever rifled barrel for $200. It had a scraped up stock, and was 12ga, so I put a Boyd's thumbhole stock on it and it has replaced my Nova as my deer shotgun. (I also ended up with a second 870 in 20ga for my son and put a saddle mount on his other one with the rifled barrel, rifle sights). Anyway, I spent about 2 1/2 times what I would have had I just bought the cantilever barrel, but now I have two more guns.