RYes I'm sure you did carry an 870 in Korea. My service days use of that weapon is not the only reason I chose it. I prefer the placement of the safety and the release on the Moss. Is that preference from years of use? Probably. I've never been a fan of horizantal trigger pushbutton safeties. I really like the armorlocked 887 but it's release is forward of the trigger assembly I couldn't figure out any way to get to it without using completely moving one of your hands out of position. As you know those duty weapons have gazillions of cycles on them. So in that two years the only failures I remember is a broken firing pin that extended out of the bolt face. When the round was racked, BOOM. We carried at condition one at ALL times. So we L&L in our ready areas. That thang is a lil loud in a concrete room. I did give all the other Shottys a look see. Actually I was set on the 930SPX and just recently decided on a pump. I would love to have a Benelli or one of the other high end combat semis. But a $1500 shotty is not going to happen right now. Read lots of 930 reviews saying the Moss could be tuned to the same performance as the high end semis for half the price. In the end I made a decision to attain some mastery of a pump before going semi auto. I could have picked up a 930 for a lil more. I will put another $250 or so in it making it fit my person and what I intend to make it. A combat shotgun. I will also be adding a Mesa Tactical recoil reducer. Per our local shotty expert it reduces felt recoil by 85%. Plus a few Magpul items.