As long as the kids are big/strong enough to handle the weight of a pump or auto. If not, all that is a moot point. My girl Kendall has been anxiously awaiting her 3901. Only poblem is that she is not strong enough to SAFELY handle it. She can shoulder it but the barrel waves all over the place. Unless some miracle happens in her strength/growth in the next few months she will be shooting her youth model oneshot one more season. Also, if the OP kids have no experience with shotguns, they should only shoot one shell at a time wheteher it be a single, pump or auto until OP feels they can handle another round after recoil. I have taken many a kids with their dads hunting over the 16 years I have been guiding and have seen way too many times a gun handle the kid because the yungun wasn't ready for that big a gun or capable of safely firing multiple rounds. Had to almost shut down a hunt when I strongly requested to a father that he only allow his son one shell at a time and he got upset. He should have thanked me as the barrel of his kid's gun was less than a foot from his head when the second shell was fired after the kid rocked back and to the side from the first shell. But he insisted that little Johnny had control and he bought that gun so his son would have " 3 chances". Yeah, three chance to blow his head off. Point is, make sure your kids can not only shoulder a gun with complete steadiness and swing steady, but moreover make damn good and well that they can handle the recoil of a fired shell safely before you enable them to shoot another round in succession. Sorry this is longwinded but in my blinds safety always comes first.

The 28 ga and 410 are a little hard to find in steel shot

Ok guys. I bought the 870. After looking at it with her and my wife fitting them the remington just had a stonger assembly and just was a better made and handled gun.

K so here is a problem, the ______ choke tube won't come out! I also don't want to keep trying cause I'm afraid I'm going to strip it with the crappy key they give.

Now I have heard put it in kroil for a day, also transmission fluid will do the same thing. Looked on youtube and not much on choke tubes that are stuck. Also looked into buying a tighter wrench (maybe I am just not getting enough torque with the cruddy loose wrnech they gave)Should I just shoot it a few sessions and see if it heats it up etc?

Steering away from paying a gunsmith to do it for me considering ITS A NEW GUN! I also got from Academy and to my understanding the will just tell me they have a policy that you have to send it back. Has a 2 year warranty and not a huge deal cause it's modified and thats all they would need anyway.

Just saying I bought a new gun and don't expect the choke to be air compressed in there. lol.

Any thoughts?

If the Kroil doesn't work, put some heat to it. If you have a propane torch, heat the first couple of inches of the barrel and the tube should come out. I've got a Fabarm Gold Lion that bonds to choke tubes at a sub-atmoic level.

Once you get the choke tube out, get some anti-seize compound from Auto Zone and lube the threads up before reinstalling it.