<P style="MARGIN: 0px">I've got two with 26" barrels. If that's a new gun, the price is not unreasonable. I needed to get a .675" Terror choke to get mine to deliver good patterns with fast steel loads. The best it would do with factory chokes was in the mid 60% level at 40 yards. The gun's a little light for me and I had to add 1 lb. divided between the forend and the buttstock. Even then, it was a little lighter in the forend than I prefer, being more lively than I like. It's a very reliable gun. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The only problems I ever had with mine was in over oiling the firing pin recess in the bolt carrier, which cased missfires due to oil thickening when temps. dropped into the low 20's, and in short shucking the slide when I was shooting 3.5" shells. If you short shuck the slide after firing a 3.5" shell, you can release a shell from the magazine onto the shell lifter and it's rim will sit in front of the fired shell, preventing ejection of the fired shell. About the only way you can remove the fired shell is to take needlenose pliers, pierce the side of the case and pull the shell out of the ejection port. It doesn't have this problem with 3" or 2 3/4" shells, just the 3.5" shells. If you simply pull the slide smoothly to the rear, letting the gun do the ejection, it will function with no problems. I got into the habit of short shucking the slide and pulling the empty out with my fingers shooting sporting clays. That's no problem with the short shells, but it's a bad habit to develop when using the 3.5" shells.</P>