Nice thing about the 870's that keeps me from spending more money on shotty's, is for sure the simplicity, just last Sunday for example, walking across the edge of a bog, there happened to be a well hidden bottomless pit of death under the labrador tea and grasses, well I took the plunge, filled my waders and of course you guessed it, the 870 took the load of the fall, in no time at all the barrel was off and with a few hard come back mallard call blows the actions cleaned and the barrel clear of that ripe bog mud, (end of my duck call funnels air really good into parts to be cleaned) just like that back in ready mode,