Bought a Beretta O/U once for $4400 & the wife was with me. Even though we have a deal that each of our extra money can be spent on what we please, I thought I'd catch it on this one. She never said a word.
Shot it for a while & realized like others here that it didn't make me a bit better shot, so I sold it. I got 5K for it & she finally told me that she thought I had lost my mind when I bought it, but evidently knew what I was doing. I don't hear that often.