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Go to the Marlborough gun show, and "try on" a few. Fit is very important in a shotgun.
If you belong to a club, go there, and ask the Trap and Skeet people to help you with fit.
Alll of the recommend guns are fine - for an all-around gun the 870 is a good choice, there are numerous differeny barrels, add-on, etc. For a semi, 1100s, etc. are a good choice
Those are both solid choices for pump guns. Both can be had at Dick's Sporting Goods and can usually be found packaged with both a field barrel and a slug barrel.
You can also look into autoloaders. Readily available used are the Rem 1100/11-87, Mossberg 835, Browning A5, the list goes on and on.
If you get a shotgun with just one barrel, it would help to make sure the barrel has interchangeable chokes. That way you can run a cylinder or improved cylinder choke for slugs, then swap it out for a turkey choke (extra full), ported or non ported.
+1 on KTP. They had a ton of new and used shotguns when I was there a month ago, a lot of them on the racks, and the nicer ones behind the counter.anouther good place to 'try on' a few is Kitter tradeing post. Any Local gun shop will at least have a few of the most common models though. if your not in a hurry look arround and more importantly ASK at the shops...
BTW, personaly I love my mossberg 9200 semi auto
I can't recomend this enough the mossberg 500 field deer combo at dicks is on sale now for 300 bucks its not a fancy gun but it is super reliable.. The slug barrel comes with a cantliver scope mount so you sight in the scope and can pull the barrel and scope off and go back to the feild barrel... awsome if you start hunting pheasents, ducks, fall turkey... without the cantilever you sight your slug barrel scope in your done or you gotta do it all over again... The mossberg 500 alone is around 289 to 350 at alot of gun shops the slugster barrel (with this joke of a scope it comes with replace that) is around 189 retail so the 300 sale price is incredible!