Thanks for the replies regarding the magazine follower problem.
The inside of the magazine is pretty dirty (I bought this gun used and the guy did not take care of it!). I think I'll also order the Brownells steel follower just for the heck of it.
What a fiasco at the gun shop where I got this extension installed on my 870 express! After they had taken two weeks to install it instead of the "one week" they promised, and after they charged me $35.00 instead of the $20.00 they quoted over the phone, I went down to pick up the gun. I noticed that the new Choate plastic orange follower was sticking when I pushed it in. One of the gunsmiths took of the extension right there...and when he unscrewed it, the spring shot out like a bolt of lightning, flew across the counter and nailed me right between the eyes. I got a one-inch gash that was instantly bleeding! "Sorry...I'll get you a band-aid", he said as he was still messing with the gun.
While he was still trying to get the spring back in, I was standing there with blood dripping down my nose! I noticed that my new mag extension now had fresh scrapes where the spring had made contact on the way to my forehead . One of the other employees eventually got me a band-aid. He put the old follower in, followed by the new plastic follower, followed by the rabid spring, handed me some shells and let me try shooting it in their range "on the house" . Well, it jammed and I went back and told him to just use ONE of the followers, so he took it to his bench and I took cover.
I could still see him behind my barricade when he was unscrewing the extension. When he finally got the extension loose, the spring launched it like Apollo 11! Up into the wild blue, striking metal tools, bouncing on the cement floor and landing safely in a pile of cobwebs. One small step for gunsmiths, one giant leap for my insanity.
After mangling my gun further, he put the factory follower in without the second follower behind it. This led to more atrocities in the firing range, but I won't get into that right now.
Before I left, I bought a bottle Birchwood Casey Aluminum Black to repair the damage inflicted to my gun.
Hope you enjoyed my story!
TCW
The inside of the magazine is pretty dirty (I bought this gun used and the guy did not take care of it!). I think I'll also order the Brownells steel follower just for the heck of it.
What a fiasco at the gun shop where I got this extension installed on my 870 express! After they had taken two weeks to install it instead of the "one week" they promised, and after they charged me $35.00 instead of the $20.00 they quoted over the phone, I went down to pick up the gun. I noticed that the new Choate plastic orange follower was sticking when I pushed it in. One of the gunsmiths took of the extension right there...and when he unscrewed it, the spring shot out like a bolt of lightning, flew across the counter and nailed me right between the eyes. I got a one-inch gash that was instantly bleeding! "Sorry...I'll get you a band-aid", he said as he was still messing with the gun.
While he was still trying to get the spring back in, I was standing there with blood dripping down my nose! I noticed that my new mag extension now had fresh scrapes where the spring had made contact on the way to my forehead . One of the other employees eventually got me a band-aid. He put the old follower in, followed by the new plastic follower, followed by the rabid spring, handed me some shells and let me try shooting it in their range "on the house" . Well, it jammed and I went back and told him to just use ONE of the followers, so he took it to his bench and I took cover.
I could still see him behind my barricade when he was unscrewing the extension. When he finally got the extension loose, the spring launched it like Apollo 11! Up into the wild blue, striking metal tools, bouncing on the cement floor and landing safely in a pile of cobwebs. One small step for gunsmiths, one giant leap for my insanity.
After mangling my gun further, he put the factory follower in without the second follower behind it. This led to more atrocities in the firing range, but I won't get into that right now.
Before I left, I bought a bottle Birchwood Casey Aluminum Black to repair the damage inflicted to my gun.
Hope you enjoyed my story!
TCW