It is a now discontinued Beretta model. It's essentially a 3" SBE or an older style M1 Super 90.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with $444 for a brand new, in the box, high quality shotgun. Specially when it was not to long ago it was selling for a grand!
As for why? Why not!
I didn't shoot all thet well this season with my 390 so I'm just gonna try something new and different.