[CruiserStuff]

Is your heart set on the 870? When I started hunting, my dad bought me a Winchester 120 pump in a youth model. It came with a proportionally shorter stock and a magazine plug to make it a single shot (sections of the plug can be cut off when he's ready for multiple shots). It was a 20 guage with a 3" chamber and the 3 choke tubes. It even came with a certificate to get the full-sized adult stock for free when I outgrew the youth size. I shot everything from dove to ducks with it - great, reliable gun. I still hunt dove and quail with it today, 24 years later (yikes). And...about the lefty thing...the safety can be flipped around to the other side (I'm pretty sure...I'll take a look at it if you're interested). Lemme know...