A friend of mine and I went to the range tonight. Yesterday, he installed a Choate Parkerized extended magazine tube on his 20 inch barrelled 870. He had two problems. One was the Parkerizing at the end of the tube started to wear away after only twenty or so rounds of Winchester slugs. This is one of those tubes that extends past the barrel for an 1/8 of an inch or so. I told him it was probably the muzzle blast, which can be kind of severe. The second problem was the follower hung up around where he had to drill out the magazine dimples. We'll probably smooth out the tube tomorrow at work. Has anyone else had these problems with the extended magazine tube? I told him he didn't need it but he was all excited to have all the bells and whistles.
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Extended magazine tube and muzzle blast.
- Thread starter APSAC
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Have same problems
I have had the same problems you had. The follower on my 870 kept getting caught on that section where the extention begins. After looking at it for a little while I figured out that the sides of the follower are cut to a 90 degree angle and getting hung up in that small area. So what I did was take a dremmel tool and sanded down the sharp angle just a bit so it is smooth and rounded, and since then I have never had a problem. If you want a better follower you can pick one up from Wilson Combat's Scattergun Tech. I didn't though, cause I'm on a College student's budget.
I have had the same problems you had. The follower on my 870 kept getting caught on that section where the extention begins. After looking at it for a little while I figured out that the sides of the follower are cut to a 90 degree angle and getting hung up in that small area. So what I did was take a dremmel tool and sanded down the sharp angle just a bit so it is smooth and rounded, and since then I have never had a problem. If you want a better follower you can pick one up from Wilson Combat's Scattergun Tech. I didn't though, cause I'm on a College student's budget.
Edward429451
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You do have to ream it out after you drill the dimple. I didnt have the dremel yet when I did mine, I just used one of those inside pipe reamers, the twirly ones for copper pipe. Never had a problem at all with sticking.
Wb 880, He did exactly like you did. The functioning is now fixed. The parkerizing is actually wearing off. The unburnt powder must have burnt it off. We aren't too impressed with the Choate quality. This is the second item he has bought from them in the last two weeks and both have been extremely poor quaility. I hope they will stand behind their product as he is planning on sending it back. Wb 880 I am going to order a Scattergun magazinne extension right now.