If you can find it, try to get the field model of the Mossberg maverick 88. The placement of the slide release is just perfect, and you can use any regular Mossberg barrel if you want to make it shorter for home defense when you're not hunting with it. Another reason is chokes. If you get the home defense model, you're stuck with a fixed cylinder choke, but with the field model you can use any number of specialty chokes for everything from modified for rabbits and squirrels to a superfull turkey/coyote whacker. I would have one if there hadn't been such an insane deal on the Hatsan I got.