Remington 870?

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aceofblades

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Hi everyone,
I have the ability to get a Remington 870 with a parkarized finish, 26 in. barrel and wooden stock for about 150 dollars. It is a 12 gauge. Is this worth it? I plan on using it for deer, water foul, and turkey most likely. What do you guys think?
 
The Remington 870 is known for its quality and reliability. The price is right too! IMO, you can't do too much better in a pump action 12Ga.
 
I have an 870 Express Magnum......I love it. $150....take it.....you won't be sorry.
 
I've got one with a synthetic stock I got it used for 180 with a couple of boxes of ammo. It's the best gun purchase I ever made. Snap it up!
 
Sounds like the one I have if it has RemChokes in the barrel. For $150, I'd buy it myself for truck gun.
 
You should see the one I've owned for about 30 years. A cast-off from one of the local police departments, it has not a speck of the original finish.
I haul it out to the range every once in a while when we shoot at the county's outdoor range, still works fine.
 
I have a 20 year old 870 wingmaster. Wonderful, wonderful shotgun. I don't think you'll be disappointed with an 870, especially at that price.

Andy
 
remington 870's are the f 150's or the C1500 series of the gun world, you can shape them a number of ways, from trap or skeet to ducks, from deer to tacticool. all barrels fit, all stocks fit, and you can make one receiver do lots of things cheaply and efficiently.
 
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For deer, you will want a rifled barrel when you can afford it. :thumbup:
 
I'm more of an Ithica Model 37 sort of guy myself, but the 870 is a perfectly fine shotgun.


$150 is a great price. Does it have a fixed choke?
 
Guntotin_fool said:
remington 870's are the f 150's or the C1500 series of the gun world, you can shape them a number of ways, from trap or skeet to ducks, from deer to tacticool. all barrels fit, all stocks fit, and you can make one receiver do lots of things cheaply and efficiently.
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Yup! and you can even take it hunting,scratch it up, bust through brush with it and when you are done you dont feel bad,as it probably looks better. Each new scratch can tell a story...and isnt that what it's all about?
Say NO to safe queens.
 
I've owned two 870's in the past, and would very much like to own a third. I know my first 870 is still alive and kicking and giving good service to the guy it got sold to. I regret selling that gun!

An 870 is as about as proven a gun design as you can get. I believe it's the best selling pump shotgun in history - in continuous production since 1950. You can set up an 870 to be a least decent at just about any job you can expect a shotgun to do from trap to sheet to turkeys to home defense. It has to have more accessories produced for it than any other shotgun.

As long as it's in decent condition, I'd grab it at $150. The only problem I ever had with an 870 is my friend broke the firing pin on one of mine. It was an old police gun, so who knows what abuse it suffered. The 870 has a long, thin, unsupported firing pin. I was able to fix it myself fairly easily once I got a replacement firing pin.
 
Ace, that's an OUTSTANDING price on a great shotgun! You did real good. One of the nice things about 870s is how easy it is to swap out the barrels and how many good used barrels are available, usually at good prices, too. An 870 with an 18 or 20 inch barrel and the plug removed from the magazine tube is hard to beat as a defensive weapon, whether it's for a thug kicking in your door or a bear peeking in your tent flap. :D

About 25+ years ago I paid $125 for an old grungy 12 ga. 870 that looked like it had been hunted with for years without being cleaned. I decided -- what the heck -- to shoot it first before I cleaned it. It was filthy! But I ran a box of 25 rounds through it without so much as putting a drop of oil in it. It worked flawlessly! Then I stripped it, cleaned it good, lightly lubed it, and put it into service. It's been with me ever since. :thumbup:
 
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