Bargain Home Defense shotgun
Bud's Gun Shop has the NEF Pardner pump, home defense model, on sale for $155
http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/955/products_id/16597/Recent+...
I have one of these, it's a Chinese clone of an 870, mine works like a champ.
Bargain Home Defense shotgun
by Slow Hand 
, Indiana, Monday, August 25, 2014, 18:12 (3748 days ago) @ Warhawk
I'm pretty sure Fatboy (Bob M) had one and had issues with it.
I'm all for a bargain but when it comes to my family's defensive needs, I hate to scrimp!
Not quite an 870 or 500, but...
by Sarge , Central Misery, Monday, August 25, 2014, 20:04 (3748 days ago) @ Warhawk
"My impression was that the Pardner is a pretty decent shotgun for the money. It could stand a little refinement; the trigger was gritty as hell and the base of the sight bead just barely protruded into the bore, perhaps enough to queer the patterns a little. None of these are problems for the hobbyist gunsmith. I am tempted to buy one, clean up the rough spots and have a set of choke tubes installed."
In my limited experience I would take a Pardner over a
Mossberg YMMV.
The 500 is beautifully easy to rebuild...
by Sarge , Central Misery, Tuesday, August 26, 2014, 10:15 (3748 days ago) @ stonewalrus
when it finally does need work and that's a positive attribute, from the perspective of a old gun mechanic.