I bought it's twin for the same price at the local pawn shop.

The two bead sight thing is just a mid-bead. It's smaller size is because the front bead will appear smaller because it's farther out. So they use two different sizes to make things look right. It's a fast, easy to use system that's frankly pretty accurate. The mid-bead acts as sort of a rear sight.

You may want to try and clean it with a better solvent. If the rust wipes away, and then comes right back later, (rather than rusting because it's just bare metal) then the rust is in a little deeper than you're cleaning. Many gun cleaners don't really get all that deep, or actually provide a film of lubrication that can actually cover the rust, and leave it on the metal rather than cleaning it off. Having said that, the steel used in most guns rusts pretty quickly without a finnish, which your's is probably kinda shy on.

Alumahyde would be tougher than Krylon, as would many other finishes going up in price. You get what you pay for. I went with the Krylon, simply because mine is a beater and I figured if it scratches off, it's easy to spot repaint and above all CHEAP. If mine gets a scratch in the metal, it just joins the others already there. The Krylon is just for rust prevention on mine. With any spray-on finish (paint or higher-tech), the key is surface prep. Thin coats are better than thick, and give it plenty of time to dry/cure.

My action was kinda gummy and the safety wouldn't work. I took it all apart and cleaned the heck out of it and it smoothed up quite a bit and the safety (old steel one, not plastic) works great now. Most people never take their shotgun apart and clean the inside. Since you already own it, I'd say clean it like a madman and see how it is.

I put a bird's head pistol grip on mine to play with. If you want a PG, the bird's head is the way to go, but PG's are pretty useless really. They're fun though. The advantages with the bird's head one is you can use the safety easily without the bizarre movements needed with a conventional PG, and because your forearm takes the recoil instead of your hand, it's alot more comfortable to shoot. It looks cool too. But, like I said, they aren't really that useful.

As for what you want to do with it, that's up to you. There isn't as much available as a Rem 870, but still more than enough to waste money on, and have fun with it. Just remember it's only a $125 shotgun, so you can quickly pour in alot more money than might be wise. But have fun with it. There's no reason not to enjoy it.

Man those were both awesome replys, you really assured me of what I was already thinking in my head. I'm going to give a it a good cleaning today since I have the time and I'll report back if it helped any.

As far as mods, I wasn't thinking of doing much just a few little things if they really help with the comfort/ease of use for the shotgun. I looked at some Wlliams fiber optic sights for the "slug" barrel and I looked at a Limbsaver recoil pad since the one on it currently feels pretty stiff. It already has the metal safety, although it is kinda stiff like yours was, so I guess I don't have to worry about that breaking.

When you painted your barrel with Krylon, did you remove the thumbscrew that holds the barrel to the magazine? I wouldn't think a little paint on it would hurt but I'm just curious. I also wasn't quite sure how to remove the rear sight. It's a Williams sight, but not a fiber optic, and it looks similar to the way this does.

I was thinking I would just remove the barrel and paint it, remove the sights or tape them off depending on how difficult removing them was. The gun has a wood stock that is in pretty good shape, even with the amount of use the gun had. There is some wear on the finish of the mag tube and receiver also, but not much. If I were to paint anything else on it it would be the mag tube.

I gave it a good thorough cleaning tonight, the "slug" barrel was more pitted than I originally thought, but the rust did come off with some Hoppes Nitro and I stripped it down, cleaned it all up with the Nitro and put some good ole #9 on everything and wiped the barrel down and run the brush and swab through the barrel as well. All the rust came off but I will have to see how long until it returns, I could see that some of the rust spots went through the finish to bare metal so I'm sure I'll have to coat this barrel in something to keep the rust off it for long. The bird barrel cleaned up much better, which I expected since I was told it was rarely used. The action cycles slightly better now that it's clean and lubed, but still not super smooth, oh well. It will be just fine for what it is.

Thanks guys.

Well I can't blame ya for that!

Action bars looked fine when I had it apart. I was planning on taking it apart again to do a little polishing, looked like it could use that. There were a lot of spots on the internals where the finish had worn off, some spots on the receiver also.