I like Nitros as a rough and ready rainy day gun. Solid and capable of handling real heavy loads. I would not mind shooting one as a backup gun duck hunting. I use to keep a Mossberg 500 in my duck boat, year around as a emergency backup gun. Funny how many people looked down their nose at that Mossberg until their gun died. It looked a lot better then. They even figured out how to pump it most of the time.