Gotta vote for the Remington 870. You can find the Express models for well within the price range you are looking at. At last look, Wal-Mart had 'em for $237 with 28" bbl. Get a hacksaw and cut the bbl to 18" or have it professionaly done for about $25 You can get a used one for under $200 sometimes. I would recommend staying away from the 870 HD model as you can not easily add such nasty features as extended mag tubes to these guns. (Remington selling us out too??) Not sure but I think that the newer Express' may also have this problem.
Rob
RKBA
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It's amazing what a large group of stupid people can accomplish.
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