heavybarrel
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Afternoon everyone,
I found an 870 in a pawnshop this week while looking for a home defense shotgun. It is labeled as an Express Magnum, 28" barrel with a vented rib and labeled for 3" use, not that I'll be shooting anything quite that heavy. It's a black matte finish with synthetic stock and forearm, $200 out the door. It's in good mechanical shape and the finish is, well, worn. Not bad but not new. I suspect it has been a truck gun for quite a while. The barrel and action are very clean and operation is smooth. I don't think it was fired often. S/N is D609xxxM. I think this would be a great bird gun and if I ever do that again I'd use it. I'm considering though a pistol grip buttstock and a barrel about 20" if I can find one. It only holds 2 in the tube but it isn't dimpled so I suspect I can increase that count easily. Does anyone have an idea when this might have been made? Doesn't matter really but would be nice to know.
HB
I found an 870 in a pawnshop this week while looking for a home defense shotgun. It is labeled as an Express Magnum, 28" barrel with a vented rib and labeled for 3" use, not that I'll be shooting anything quite that heavy. It's a black matte finish with synthetic stock and forearm, $200 out the door. It's in good mechanical shape and the finish is, well, worn. Not bad but not new. I suspect it has been a truck gun for quite a while. The barrel and action are very clean and operation is smooth. I don't think it was fired often. S/N is D609xxxM. I think this would be a great bird gun and if I ever do that again I'd use it. I'm considering though a pistol grip buttstock and a barrel about 20" if I can find one. It only holds 2 in the tube but it isn't dimpled so I suspect I can increase that count easily. Does anyone have an idea when this might have been made? Doesn't matter really but would be nice to know.
HB
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