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rah7777777 Enthusiast

rah7777777

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I've really been eye-balling an 870 for a while....

 

I just can't bring myself to buy it though. I have no practical reason to own a shotgun.

My first choice in home defense would be my favorite 9mm with a flashlight hanging on it (SW99)

My local gun range has a crappy shotgun shooting area. You literally shoot at boxes on the ground.

I can at least get 100 yards out with my AR.

But they are building a new facility this year and extending the rifle range to 250 yards I believe. So maybe the shotgun area will be a little more exciting as well.

 

If I had land... there is no doubt I'd have a couple shotguns though.

 

A short 20g pump is on my list too, but all I've found are 3 round capacities. That's just not enough :-)

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bought my first 870 in 85" an express with the 26" barrel with screw ins and a cantilever slug barrel. beware of the guy with only one gun for he knows how to use it. never had any problem with it and it has shoot many many rounds throught it. i also have many other shotguns, love my brownings too, but love to take this old war horse out an put a good spanking on the big dollar guys at my club smoking the clays. this old girl has put many a good meal on the table.

i also have a youth 20ga express for hd. perfect size packed with 00 buck.

just bought a 870 super mag couple years ago and for turkeys put a halo on it. puts a very nice clubbing on turkey heads out to 60 yrds. with federal free flight wads in 4's. remmie .665 turkey choke.

6Sixathome Enthusiast

6Sixathome

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After shooting my 12ga 870 Express and the new 870 .410 Express that I just got, it seems like if you point the gun down it will eject spent casing AND chamber the live round better than trying to do it pointed at the target. I take it this is par? The .410 more so than the 12. I was using 3" rounds in the .410, think I'll try some 2 1/2's.

 

Also .410 rounds are SALTY! Where is a good online supply store?

6Sixathome Enthusiast

6Sixathome

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So far in my 870 Express I've run a box of Remington shells (premier nitro sporting clays 2 3/4 1300 velocity 1 1/8 oz shot 8 shot)through with zero issues and I've run five rounds of the cheap Winchester bulk shells (super-lite target load 2 3/4 1180 velocity 1oz shot 8 shot) through and out of the five rounds two had extraction issues. I went back to shooting the Remington's and business as usual. So I guess there is some merit to what I've been reading about the cheap Winchester rounds. Now I have a bunch of the Win rounds that are crap in my gun. I don't know if I should mix the Rem's and Win's together (like load one then the other) just to get rid of it or see if someone around here has a gun they run well in and will buy them from me, idk?

 

I also bought a Winchester slip-on recoil pad, 1" thick (22.00 at WM) that is the cat's A$$, it really took a lot of the recoil out of it.

TimmyG Senior Enthusiast

TimmyG

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My 870 won't shoot walmart winchester. Or federal. But shoots federal top guns just fine

 

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6Sixathome Enthusiast

6Sixathome

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I ordered a new stock and fore-end today direct from Remington, dark walnut with fleur-di-lis checkering for my 870. Right now it has the cheap laminated stock and fore-end......not really super cool like solid wood. I thought about the black synthetic stock and fore-end but that's quite not my style.....yet, maybe when I start thinking about a Benelli :-)

 

Pics when get it.

 

Next mod is a Wingmaster breech bolt with a slide action plate.

TimmyG Senior Enthusiast

TimmyG

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I clear coated my express stock with 3 layers of clear, it looks much nicer then before

 

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kstruckcountry Senior Enthusiast

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I'm a big fan of synthetic. There's really no drawback on a shotgun, unless you're a tailgate hunter that just wants a pretty gun to show off. Only issue I've run into is my .30-06 is so light because of it, it kicks hard.

TimmyG Senior Enthusiast

TimmyG

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Never gonna make the 870 look as nice as higher grade guns

 

Here's my browning for example

7y2y7ahy.jpg

 

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6Sixathome Enthusiast

6Sixathome

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My new stock and fore-end came in today............it was laminated, someone got mixed up on the order I guess and the solid walnut ones are way more money. Bummer, so I'm sending it back. I bought a lightly used solid walnut stock on ebay for half the price, it'll work.

6Sixathome Enthusiast

6Sixathome

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Never gonna make the 870 look as nice as higher grade guns

 

Here's my browning for example

7y2y7ahy.jpg

 

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Man that is nice!

TimmyG Senior Enthusiast

TimmyG

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Never gonna make the 870 look as nice as higher grade guns

Here's my browning for example

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Man that is nice!

Thanks

 

 

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TimmyG Senior Enthusiast

TimmyG

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That's a perfect gun for tailgate hunting. :jester:

no tailgate hunting here, that's my trap gun

 

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