I decided upon the Remington 870 from the buyer Boondock mentioned (he took off another $20 because of a small chip in the stock, which wouldn't have been a problem since I might end up replacing the stock anyways like Joe mentioned); the reason being that almost every shotgun I had used happened to be an 870 or similar already, so just to keep things consistent for now. Now just the 10 day waiting period, I can get anything else needed in the meantime, then I'll probably be shooting a bit at one of the ranges on our 2N02 to practice cycling few shells through the shotgun.