if that is your choice.
After 25,000+ rounds like that; I'll call it ready to go
Now if someone can get 10-15 thousand rounds through a general utility single shot shotgun and not have something break I would be really impressed since most of these type shotguns will rarely see more than 1000 rounds in their entire lifetime. I have had to replace a firing pin in one older H&R single 20 gauge, and another had to replace a spring in a hardware brand 12 gauge. I would doubt either of them had seen 500 rounds in their lifetime. Not saying it can't happen, I have half a dozen single shot shotguns. Most are corner shotguns for pest control. Single shots have a place in most households that have a gun. Is there a better option? Most definitely. Will they usually do in a pinch? Probably.
Savage 301- decent copy of the old H&R's, minus the safety on the side.
The first time I had a gun deliberately pointed at me, it was an H&R Topper 12 ga. , I left where I was, as asked.
I really like mine. The biggest complaint I see is the presence of a safety. Simple cure is don't use it. Other than that mine has been flawless. It locks up like a bank vault and opens smoothly. I haven't even felt the need to change the recoil pad.
When he shot it before he did that, I put Aguila mini-shells in it for him; after he did that, I found some of my Dad's old "knock the stuffings out of you" 2 3/4" duck loads, and said, "Here, shoot 'em up!" 
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About a week later, in after thought I asked him where the shotgun was. When he called the kid he'd traded with, the kid said he didn't know what he was talking about. It took me 5 year to pay off the loan for that F350, and I hear about it all the time from SWMBO, who advised me not to do it, but no, I was trying to be his buddy. Lesson Learned.
I did. It was a 12 Ga. Red Letter one that had been used for training on gun and stock finishes. The stock had been cut down to about 12" LOP, four different finishes on it, the barrel about the same length as your Savage above, with the first 6" from the muzzle bead blasted flat and cold blued. I got it for next to nothing. My younger son got it into his head that because I had told him it would be his when he was old enough, it meant it was his right then. I told him this when he was 9; at that age his brother had already had "his" own shotgun, a .410 H&R, but his older brother was a bit more mature by then, and had actually been 'given' (the use of) the .410 at 7. I didn't actually give it to him until about 21.
My younger son misinterpreted this to mean it was actually "his" shotgun, in a very real and legally binding sense, (as in Monty Python) and carved his name into the forearm.
This still didn't dissuade him, and when he graduated high school, I helped him buy his dream truck, a '94 F350 crew cab long box, and he asked for the Win. 37 to put under the seats, I said sure. (What redneck kid doesn't have a shotgun in the truck, right?) Without my knowledge or consent, he'd worked out a trade of the F350 for a heavy half diesel Chevy 1500, and had left the shotgun under the seat. He then promptly crashed the 1500 the day after, having stayed up all night working on it.
after he died, when I was 12 years old. First time I shot it, my right hand came back and busted me on the nose. I still call that gun "Bloody Nose". It did not dissuade me.
