Yep I agree on the noise thing. Back when I was a teen, (early '70's) my cousin and I would load up a bag of shotshells, with the Mec 600 jr we bought, and do a lot of "let's see what happens" shooting out at the grandparents place. I had my Ithaca/SKB double and he had an A-5, one time we swapped guns. One shot out of that thing was enough, scared the crap out of me with all that clanging and shit, 'bout threw the thing. Lots of folks like them, but not enough barrels and too many parts for me.