Glad you're liking it now. I've had one for three or four years now and have loved it since new. Nope, not a $2k weapon but shoots real nice....light, fast, and dead-nuts accurate Never had any of the "complaints" a lot of the "experts" whine about. I've dusted many, many clays, pheasant, and grouse with it...definately worth the ~$400 my wife paid back then. As long as I'm not hunting the saltmarsh, it's my shotgun of choice these days.
Boggles my mind that people bash Mossberg so much. My saltmarsh shotgun is a Mossberg 500 that I bought for ~$200 almost 20 years ago. It's been my consistant meatstick for a long time. It's killed a LOT of ducks, geese, pheasants, grouse, doves, and even slugged a deer. I've been swimming with it, dropped it, bushwacked with it, used it as a boat oar, and even hobbled along with it as a cane when I blew my ankle in the marsh. Even after all that it's still a great weapon that puts meat on the table. Not too many gas ejection inertia driven super whama-dine 2000 $1200 shotguns could hold up to the use this one has seen.
It ain't the gun, it's the shooter that makes the shot....Mossberg makes a fine weapon in my humble opinion.
