Having just bought 3 new in the box shotguns in the last 3 months I can put my two bits in here......but it does come with a story.
The wife started shooting sporting clays....and really liked it, she at first used our old 1100 but it did not fit her well and was pounding her to death.....and had the chance to get me arrested by the bruises left on her....so to avoid that she bought a new Benelli M2. While shopping she tried several different guns....some she could not push the button to release the bolt....just too stiff, the Benelli felt nice and smooth, the button was easy to push, it fit her....we THOUGHT we had a winner.....she could not load it....too hard to get the shell past the spring and when she did it bit her finger to the point of blood....we tried everything, it even went back to benelli twice for them to try to make it better for her...no luck, she hated it.
So one expensive shotgun down.....so she sells it back to the store she got it from for a loss of $200....not bad, they really did help her out.....
Next on deck is a weatherby sa08, she loves...as in LOVES this shotgun, fits her, she can load it, she thinks it has a less harsh recoil over the M2. She has had it perhaps a month or two now and puts ~ 100 rounds per week through it.....it is much more dirty then the benelli, but has never had an issue in her long sessions with her instructor.
She then also bought a tristar....we really did not need it but figured as we now had a electric thrower at home (amazing the stuff you get after your wife starts to play some of the gun games too) she figured it would be a good "gun to let friends use".....I have shot it a bit, and not had an issue with it as well.....seems to be kissing cousins to the sa08....but who knows....I did not look up who made them. The triggers are not bad on them, but being a gas gun they do get more dirty....not a biggie if I can clean a Remington model 8 I can clean these things.....now if I could get her to clean them.
For the record the balance of the money she got from the gun shop they gave her in a check....never seen them do that and they have earned my business in the future.....great guys.