RE: Shot gun
I prefer the Mossberg line. They all have multiple chokes all the way through XX Turkey Chokes. I have a Mossberg 500 and love it. It is a basic pump 12 gauge shotgun, with the change of an included barrel it becomes a scoped rifled slug gun. All for about $250. For another $80 you can pick up a muzzle loader barrel and make it into a third gun!
I love mine.
You will need something that may or may not be different, it depends on the use it will see, I don't dove, or duck hunt so the recoil and pump don't bother me, you it might.