My brother picked one up for his step-son, we took it out and the poor kid pouted for an hour becasue we were too busy shooting it. (we did let him shoot the first 10 shells or so). It really is a sweet shooting 20ga for being made in Uzbeckistan or where ever the hell its manufactured. No FTF or FTE issues with Remington and Fedral field loads. I just wish they would make SP barrles for it. If I could get one with a 26" field tube, and rifled slug brrl and a 21" or so turkey barrel it would get alot of use from me. When my brother and I went and picked it up I handled both the Mossy and a Rem 11-87 SP and I have to say that the parkerizing on the Mossberg was nicer.