My 15 year old son has been shooting birds and clay pidgeons with me this year and really loves it.

I am thinking of buying him an automatic for X-mas. We will be doing mostly skeet/trap and upland bird hunting. Maybe some ducks down the road.

Winchester new auto's that look good to me are the X-2 and X-3.

They are going for about $750 to $800 for a 28" barrel, chambered for 12 Ga 3 1/2" shells. I figure to add a choke system to the gun, and it should be fairly versatile.

OK value? Any other brand/model suggestions?