I love my Remington 870 synthetic. It was $300, has had the crap kicked out of it, handles any load, any temperature, never jams, loves duck marshes, does well on the trap range, and nobody can argue the intimidating sound of a pump action jacking one in the chamber. I just bought a Beretta Extrema, and that is going to be one mean gun too. Other than that, I have a single shot Beretta from 1973 that my dad bought when he first moved to CO, and that thing is fun simply because its an heirloom.