shiroikuma
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Chang, Correia, Dave McC,
Thanks so much!
It's a nice 870 wingmaster with beautiful bluing, but it's my mothers shotgun. She bought it when I was a kid to have us carry it around the "farm" near Homer, which is to this day mostly bushes and trees. There are black and grizzly bears in the area and we have seen many tracks an scat over the years but (fingers crossed) never a breathing bear. With slugs it was our bear gun. I doubt in the 15+ years since then it has ever been disassembled. I doubt it because I was even as a kid in charge of doing that kind of stuff and I didn't know how to do it. I don't know if it was bought used or new, I suspect used. I cleaned the bore after shooting and what I could reach in the chamber, because I loved guns even then. It's been seldome fired but carried in the rain and muck more than a few times. I did find a little easily visible rust where the barrel joins the reciever and on the top side of the mag tube as I couldn't clean it there before. The inside of the mag tube had a little too.
Looks nice and I thank you all for your help
Does anyone know why the mag spring has that inside metal cup that goes on top of the spring but under the cap? On this one it has to be pried out and smacked lightly back in. I guess it is to keep the spring from launching across the room as the cap comes off. Is it neccisary? I think the mag tube cap is aftermarket too as it has a swivel stud on it and the sling has Uncle Mike QD type mounts.
Thanks again all.
Shiro in AK
Thanks so much!
It's a nice 870 wingmaster with beautiful bluing, but it's my mothers shotgun. She bought it when I was a kid to have us carry it around the "farm" near Homer, which is to this day mostly bushes and trees. There are black and grizzly bears in the area and we have seen many tracks an scat over the years but (fingers crossed) never a breathing bear. With slugs it was our bear gun. I doubt in the 15+ years since then it has ever been disassembled. I doubt it because I was even as a kid in charge of doing that kind of stuff and I didn't know how to do it. I don't know if it was bought used or new, I suspect used. I cleaned the bore after shooting and what I could reach in the chamber, because I loved guns even then. It's been seldome fired but carried in the rain and muck more than a few times. I did find a little easily visible rust where the barrel joins the reciever and on the top side of the mag tube as I couldn't clean it there before. The inside of the mag tube had a little too.
Looks nice and I thank you all for your help
Does anyone know why the mag spring has that inside metal cup that goes on top of the spring but under the cap? On this one it has to be pried out and smacked lightly back in. I guess it is to keep the spring from launching across the room as the cap comes off. Is it neccisary? I think the mag tube cap is aftermarket too as it has a swivel stud on it and the sling has Uncle Mike QD type mounts.
Thanks again all.
Shiro in AK