I sold guns for about a decade. In that time, except for the Rossi's, I have seen more of the M-2000's come back with problems than any other gun (got out of retail before rem. made the 887). I had one before I really got to know the model and it litterally ate itself inside of 250 rounds of standard 2.75" loads and I took VERY GOOD care of that gun. I found we had between 10-25% of the M-2000s come back with some kind of issue. For the kind of money you posted, you could get he M-3500, which is a MUCH BETTER gun than the M-2000, the Mossberg 930, a simply outstanding gun for the money, the Mossberg 935, which is capable of throwing some IMPRESSIVE patterns with turkey loads, or maybe even the Benelli M-2 American, which is just a more basic version of the comfort tech M-2 and with fewer factory chokes. In short, you can do better than the M-2000...