This from a non-hunter, take a look at the Mossberg 500 Persuader.
It has a short barrel, and unlike the Remington and probably most others, the safety is in the natural place to quickly slide it to OFF.
For hunters who are used to the Remington and others that have the safety by the trigger guard it probably IS NOT in the natural place, and could cost that fraction of a second. For me, the non-hunter, it’s perfect and factored big on chosing it.
The release for the slide is also in a very natural place.
I keep a shell in the chamber so that I am ready to go, and don’t have to betray my position with the noisy chambering sound.
Mine are just backwards from that. My "Serious Social Purposes" Maverick has the cross bolt safety, my "hunting" Browning BPS, the thumb safety. However even though I've had it for a couple of decades now, I really haven't used the BPS that much, and the JC Higgins I had before that, which I used a lot, had the cross bolt, so I'm quite comfortable with that anyway.
Wal Mart is discontinuing the Maverick 88 series pump of Mossberg shotguns. I found three at my local superstore at $177 each in 20 gauge, three inch or 2&3/4 shells (acquire #3 buckshot in 2&3/4 shells). Though the barrel is 26inches long, it is easy to cut the barrel down to 19inches and the action on that model is very good for the price. Basic home defense shotgun at affordable price. Mossberg barrels are interchangeable so if you buy the 12gauge, acquire a separate short barrel and keep the long barrel for choke options and hunting.