[Rokke]

Just bought one of these a couple weeks ago. The breacher barrel is for blowing apart door locks. I have no intention of using it for that. But it makes one heck of a face mangler, which I might enjoy using given the right circumstances.

[Goldsborough]

I like that Mossberg doesn't treat the "tactical market" like a necessary evil ala Remington and their "police" market in which "civilians" may dabble.

From having owned and used both, my impression has always been that the Remington 870 is a hunting shotgun adapted to fighting purposes, and the Mossberg 500/590 was a clean sheet design aimed at building a fighting shotgun.

The nicer walnut and blued steel Remingtons are indeed finely finished pieces. The Mossberg 590A1 flagship model is by comparison a pretty rude and crude parkerized blasting tool. But that's what I like about the Mossies, they're all business.

Some will say the aluminum receiver is a long term liability. Maybe so, but the Mossbergs are ruggedly built, so much so that the theoretical upper limit on rounds fired is rather an abstraction instead of a practical concern.