a mossberg 500 for my dirty work of small game hunting(mostly tree rats and grouse) but ive hunted dove duck geese crow tree rats grouse pheasant woodcock chuckar and turkey and maybe more with it....i have a 20ga single shot i used to hunt tree rats with...now it sits on the rack....it was my first gun...and i have a 870 express 3 inch mag with the camo stocks and 21 inch barrel for turkeys...i beat my shotguns up to much i dont want a nice fancy one or an expensive one...i can afford one if i want it....but i know id cry when i scratch a pretty gun that cost me alot.....and i see no need for one....ive shot well over 1000rds out of my mossberg and it never failed me...its big and ugly but it always goes bang and its hard to hurt it......it been through alot already!