If you are going to do any other shooting say sporting clays or any multiple target shooting a semi auto may be worth a look. I bit the bullet so to speak and got my wife a beretta al 391. Granted this is a cashy gun. At the time it was 750$. But it has had a couple of thousand rounds through it without a hitch. I t has killed bird at 40 yds with 5's and a comp-n-choke.