Nordic Component Spring Follower Compatibility

[Torbay]

Hi Everyone,

This noon has arrived to my home the 45" nordics components magazine spring with Brownells inox follower, among other stuff from Brownells .
The problem is that NC spring is wider than traditional and do not fit in the follower. Any experience about it?? Some good quality follower compatible with NC spring?.
I have the "shell surge" problem and need a strong spring.

Thanks!!

[Synchronizor]

What extension kit and follower do you currently have?

[Torbay]

Spring: 45" Nordic Components 12Ga
Follower: Brownells Inox.

The Spring do not fit inside the follower. The NC spring is wider than the original spring diameter.
http://www.brownells.com/shotgun-parts/ ... ngton__870
http://www.brownells.com/shotgun-parts/ ... =100009312

What extension kit and follower do you currently have?

[Synchronizor]

What extension tube are you using?

[Torbay]

The original remington extension 3+.

[Synchronizor]

I'd say pick up a Remington factory follower, if you don't already have one lying around. They have a nice wide internal diameter (~.815") that should be compatible with the Nordic spring, since the Nordic followers are also cup-style. I've been testing several followers recently for an upcoming review, and out of everything I tested, the factory Remington follower was hands-down the most reliable in Remington two-piece extensions. This follower is also very lightweight (so the spring won't have to work as hard to move it), inexpensive, and its color makes it easier to tell apart from a shell rim than an unpainted metal follower.


Another option is to get a Nordic follower to match the Nordic spring, but since those are fairly long, you'll lose capacity in a Remington factory extension because it'll hit the extension tube's internal follower stop earlier (assuming you cut the spring short enough to compress to that point).


You can also switch from a cup-style follower to a solid-bodied, tailed follower like the Wilson Combat or S&J followers.

These will work with any spring diameter, but unless you cut the spring short enough to entirely fit past the follower stop, a solid-bodied follower will also cost you some capacity.

[Torbay]

Hello Synchronizor, thank you very much !! I will use just the original follower but im afraid that could be broken due the extra power of the spring, i will use all the coils available for the space.

[Synchronizor]

Everybody always talks about how "cheap" and "flimsy" the factory followers are, but I've never seen one break or crack. I've never even come across a picture of a broken factory follower. One of the Boy Scout camps my brother has been involved with has a clay range and a pile of the most beaten-to-crap 870s you could imagine - all with intact factory polymer followers. Remington puts these same parts in their Police and military 870s, and there's no way they would be doing so if these followers were really as fragile as all the armchair gunsmiths on the internet claim.

Sure, anything made by the hands of man can break, and a higher-power spring will increase wear, but that goes for aftermarket followers, too. And some of these "upgraded" metal followers can actually make things worse. Heavily-used aluminum followers can become quite deformed from repeatedly knocking against the steel follower stop at the mouth of the magazine, which does nothing to improve function or reliability.

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Aftermarket steel followers are harder, but also much heavier, and they can actually end up damaging the gun itself over time.

The Remington factory polymer followers will never hurt the steel components of the gun, and at just a hair over a tenth of an ounce, their extremely low mass greatly reduces the amount of inertia involved in any recoil-induced movement or feeding, so impacts are actually less severe. And since they're just $4.12 each, you can buy several spares for less than a single high-priced aftermarket follower would cost.