Remington 870 & 870 Wingmaster articles

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Re: Remington 870 & 870 Wingmaster articles

Post by BurstBarrel » Sat Apr 21, 2018 4:40 pm

Sidney, Thank you very much for the 870 articles!!
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Re: Remington 870 & 870 Wingmaster articles

Post by John A. » Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:23 pm

I just wanted to mention that my 1989 870 had a fixed cylinder barrel.
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Re: Remington 870 & 870 Wingmaster articles

Post by John A. » Sat Apr 21, 2018 10:33 pm

Odd or not, I threaded the barrel myself to accept screw in chokes.

Mainly due to the fact that when I checked the old barrel, I found that the muzzle was heavily worn and was actually a NEGATIVE choke rather than the cylinder bore the barrel was marked for.

It was the original 20" barrel to the gun. Remington confirmed that when I was checking the serial number info on the phone with them by the date code that was on the barrel was in fact a December 89 code.

I admit that I threaded it to Mossberg/Winchester/weatherby style chokes due to being less expensive and easy to find.

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Re: Remington 870 & 870 Wingmaster articles

Post by Synchronizor » Mon Jun 04, 2018 1:08 am

Sidney wrote:
Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:29 pm
That's odd as this link (& people on discussion sites) thought in 1986 they stopped making fixed choke barrels for 870 Wingmaster and Express:
Remington didn't switch 100% to screw-in chokes all at once. There was a transition period where it was more of a premium feature, and it took awhile to become a standard thing on all models. Even then, Remington kept fixed chokes on some models - they're still the norm on most Police barrels to this day.

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