RE: what would be a good waterfowl gun?
I own a Benelli Nova 26 inch barrel synthetic black. I have been using it for about a year now with no problems. This morning it was so cold I had ice on the barrel and it fired with no problems. I've put a lot of rounds through it dove hunting, duck hunting, and turkey hunting (well, patterning with turkey loads anyway seeing as I've yet to kill a turkey) and it has never jammed. More importantly, it shoots straight. It has some cool features such as an optional recoil reducer you can mount inside the stock and a button on the bottom of the gun that will let you pump out your chambered shell without chambering a new one (good if you wanted to quickly switch to a different type of shell or take out the shell to cross a fence, etc.). Around my parts (OK) you can find this gun for $299. Hard to beat for that price.