They feel good, and seem to shoot good. I shot waterfowl with one with 3" loads and did well, but it kicked a little more due to the lighter weight. You may want to invest in a good recoil pad for lots of target shooting. A lot of them have experienced component failures. Winchester went too cheap with the 1200, made some improvements with the 1300, then made some more with the Speed Pump, and FN supposedly have made some more still with the current Turkish sourced SXP. A bunch of people will come along and tell you it is great, and they have never had a problem, but that doesn't change history one bit. I did not say they were all bad, just that a too high percentage were. I hope you got a good one and enjoy it for a long time in good health.
The Mossberg and Remington designs have been virtually unchanged for over half a century for good reason. I have seen plenty of 870s that have gone well over 300,000 rounds and are still going. Can't speak to Mossbergs because they just aren't as popular with target shooters that I have encountered. The only 870 receiver I have ever seen cracked developed a crack where the receiver wall was paper thin and almost worn thru where one of the action bars was bowed out and it had something close to 300,000 rounds thru it, according to the owner. He had finally broken down and bought another action tube and was still banging away with it.