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If it's for hunting and home defense you won't have anywhere near an ideal shotgun for both tasks. You can get a mossberg 500 with a 26 inch barrel with changeable chokes (you'll want changeable chokes for hunting) and buy a shorter defense barrel later.

Also if your budget is 500 bucks......check the used market you can do way better. I just checked kittrry trading post website and a mossberg 500 field deer combo (comes with bird hunting barrel and a slug barrel for deer) is $465. Used mossy 500s are 300 to 400 dollars. You could buy used mossy and have cash left for a defensive barrel

[QUOTE="whacko, post: 9322061, member: 33400"] If it's for hunting and home defense you won't have anywhere near an ideal shotgun for both tasks. You can get a mossberg 500 with a 26 inch barrel with changeable chokes (you'll want changeable chokes for hunting) and buy a shorter defense barrel later. Also if your budget is 500 bucks......check the used market you can do way better. I just checked kittrry trading post website and a mossberg 500 field deer combo (comes with bird hunting barrel and a slug barrel for deer) is $465. Used mossy 500s are 300 to 400 dollars. You could buy used mossy and have cash left for a defensive barrel [/QUOTE]

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