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Like I said above, I agree with Adam about an auto being better for skeet than a pump unless you have shot a pump your entire life.

By the way, slugs have more recoil than a .30-06, so an auto would help in that department too. I could barely shoot 10 slugs in a singe sighting in session, but once I switched to the auto with the recoil reducers, I was able to shoot 50 at one sighting in with the new ER Shaw Barrel (i.e., went from 25, to 50, to 100 and tried several different loads at 100 to see what grouped best out of the barrel).

Like Jim said about the cantilever scope mount, the scope on the ER Shaw barrel comes off with the barrel so the zero remains on and I have a cantilever scope mount on my BPS also.

Okay, I just checked out the Remington site and none of the 870 combos have a cantilever scope mount barrel and the MSRP on them is between $450 and $480. You might want to think about spending the money on the auto, using a screw in rifled choke to shoot sabots at deer, which should be great out to 50 yards, and then worry about the fully rifled, cantilever scope mount barrel at a later date if you really like deer hunting. Something tells me you will be shooting a lot more shells at skeet than deer. Plus, a cantilever scope mount requires a scope, and that adds at least another $100 to the equation, in my case $200.