Got a B-day coming up in July, and my wife just asked me what I want. I've been considering getting a camo-ed shotgun with the intent to finally try turkey hunting. I also want to try my hand at goose hunting next fall. I don't want anything too fancy (read expensive), because I'd loathe the thought of dragging a $1000+ gun through the brush or dropping it in 10' of murky water. I'm going to stay away from the Remington 870 Express, because the last two I've owned were less than satisfactory, and I don't want a Wingmaster for the above reasons and because they are pretty shiny and would be a dead givaway to the gobblers. I found the Mossberg 835 combo gun that comes in camo with both a 24" bbl for the turkeys and a 28" barrel multi-choke barrel for everything else. The barrels are both ported and backbored with vent-ribs, and the turkey barrel has adjustable rifle-like fiber-optic sights. The gun has a 3.5" reciever and bbls and in camo dipped. The gun runs about $425 street price, which seems pretty good for so many features. So my question is is this shotgun a great value, or is it 7lbs of soon-to-be scrap metal? And please no "Mossbergs suck...buy a whatever" answers, unless you are willing to elaborate on why. I'd prefer not to have this degenerate into a Ford vs. Chevy type argument.

Thanks,

Mike