Interesting information on the Novi, I like how TreeDoc called it a "stick of mud shaped like a shotgun", hehe, my chuckle for the morning !! Since I started shooting o/u's many years ago, I don't have a lot of use for a pump anymore. There must be some way to take the rattle out of the foreend, I know I'd be trying all sorts of stuff as I don't like noise no matter what I'm hunting.
Delduck, since you can now get two since you've got some spare change left over, pick up a UGB25, a break open semi-auto, and let us know what you think of it !! Course, you'll need to rob more than just the piggy bank, Waidmannsheil, Dom.