I disagree, the Ruger Red label is a very nice shotgun. You can find older used SKB and Ithaca O/U' s that are just as good as Brownings and and Berettas for well under a grand. There is nothing wrong with the stoegers either, they don' t have the expensive wood and engraving and may not have as nice of a lock as the more expensive shotguns, but will certainly work as serviceable scatterguns if you aren' t out to impress people with how your shotgun looks.
I have a friend I trapshoot with who uses a very ugly looking savage SxS that he " improved" by porting the barrels. Its pretty rare that he doesn' t have the highest score on the squad, though sometime I still beat him if he misses one or two.
