Thread: Wadda you rekon?

I owned one for a while, put 3-4 slabs of target ammo thru it and a "few" cans of surplus buck.

Decided I shot better and faster with a rib and not the ghost ring sights.
The receiver is HEAVEY and the action anything but smooth from the factory-one of those can be fixed but the other can't.

Sold it and spent the $ on a second hand 870 and got it cut down and re threaded for chokes. Much happier.

Originally Posted by res

I owned one for a while, put 3-4 slabs of target ammo thru it and a "few" cans of surplus buck.

Decided I shot better and faster with a rib and not the ghost ring sights.
The receiver is HEAVEY and the action anything but smooth from the factory-one of those can be fixed but the other can't.

Sold it and spent the $ on a second hand 870 and got it cut down and re threaded for chokes. Much happier.

Sorry I missed your post @res.
Thank you. This is what I was after and pretty much expected. I can get an 870 new for $699 which is OK. Plus I can buy a slug barrel.
How short did you chop it? and was it not too expensive to do with choke threading etc?

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Sorry I missed your post @res.
Thank you. This is what I was after and pretty much expected. I can get an 870 new for $699 which is OK. Plus I can buy a slug barrel.
How short did you chop it? and was it not too expensive to do with choke threading etc?

Fitted a +1 mag extension and trimmed the tube to match that length-very slightly longer than the guncity one but the extra round is handy.
The cost of the cut and rethread was aprox $150 from memory.

Those that seem so against it don't seem to know what they are talking about.
A 12g gets full velocity from a short tube and with chokes it patterns just the same as a long tube-only the uneducated think barrel length has anything to do with that!
Very handy for getting in and out of the ute or in the bush.
I fitted the lightest stock I could find and it normally has a Mercury recoil reducer in the +1 extension so it swings just like my full length 870.