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The 500s have an aluminium receiver too, not that that's a downside, ARs have aluminium receivers and they run 5.56mm just fine despite 5.56/223 being loaded to about 5 times the pressure at 12 gauge

True that, as OP suggested: for the same money as a cheap semi, a pump is going to be more reliable. I've seen a lot of bolts and locking blocks shatter on Turkish semis, apparently they use leaded...

Seriously though, I've had my 500 for about 10 years, it was second hand when I got it and I've put thousands of rounds through it without a single malfunction that I can remember. Never had the a...

Someone with opinion that differs from my own, on the Internet?
Unacceptable.
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Also the Mossberg has the pump release located where you can press it with your middle finger without moving your shooting hand, with the 870 you take your finger out out the trigger guard to reach...

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The mossberg/maverick design has a lifter which stays stuck in a recess in the underside of the bolt until you rack it rearward, then it pops down to scoop up a shell. The remington 870 on...

You're doing well to get a finger pinched by the shell lifter on a mossberg...... Seeing as they fold up out of the way when the bolt is in battery. You might be thinking of the remington 870, plenty...