870 Slug Barrel Bushnell Scope Combo LEFT HANDED

[Joec1882]

I'm pretty new to guns, new to hunting too so I purchased an 870 Express about 2 weeks ago. I want to get into deer this season so I bought a slub barrel. I bought the combo with the Bushnell 3-9x40 scope mounted on the barrel. I got it from Cheaper Then Dirt who were great, shipped quickly and customer service was great. However, being an idiot like I am, I ordered a normal barrel, which is made for right handed shots. My 870 is a left handed. I've been searching the net for a little while now looking for left handed barrels in that combo and can't find any, anywhere. I was hoping someone here would be able to help.

Here is what I bought, need it in left handed shot.

http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/8-MOSS-92356

Thanks in advance.

[Synchronizor]

Hastings offers a line of fully-rifled slug barrels for various shotguns, including a 24" 12ga left-hand 870 one with a cantilever scope mount. They don't come with a scope, but at least they don't have any stupid porting...


There's an old table of their barrels here, and a sales page here. Kind of spendy, but there really aren't very many options for left-handed 870 barrels.

There's a warning here about possible issues with Remington ammunition in these barrels. I don't know why Remington sabot slugs specifically would cause problems, unless it had something to do with the sabot-stopping muzzle brakes they put on some barrels (not the left-hand 870 barrels, though). You may want to call and get more details on this.

Another option is to just get a left-hand vent-rib barrel, cut it down if you want, put rifle sights on it, and go hunting with smoothbore slugs. They won't have quite the accuracy and range of sabot slugs, but folks have been killing deer just fine with them since shotguns were invented.