Remington 870 & 870 Wingmaster articles

[BurstBarrel]

Sidney, Thank you very much for the 870 articles!!

[John A.]

I just wanted to mention that my 1989 870 had a fixed cylinder barrel.

[John A.]

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.

[Synchronizor]

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.