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Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:02 pm
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| I just had a 1959 870 in 16 follow me home. My scale says 6.6 pounds w/a 28 mod choked tube. I couldn't help myself, the guy only wanted $150 for it. |
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:25 pm
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| Lloyd3 wrote: |
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I just had a 1959 870 in 16 follow me home. My scale says 6.6 pounds w/a 28 mod choked tube. I couldn't help myself, the guy only wanted $150 for it.
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Sounds like one hell of a good deal to me. Way to go.
Is it in good shape?
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:30 pm
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| DO NOT go to sleep, you will dream the 16 gauge dream!! |
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:37 pm
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| how can a deal like that NOT follow you home ...I think the last gun I bought was a pre 1920 m12 - solid as Gibralter - 26'' full $159 . Sometimes thwere is no WAY to ESCAPE ! |
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:43 pm
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Just wondering , when you say: "6.6 lbs", does that mean the gun weighs 6 lbs, 9.6 oz's OR: 6lbs. 6oz's?
The reason I ask is that my scale shows lbs and oz's, as it is a postal scale rated to 75lbs.
Nitpicking I guess but what the hell, it DOES make a difference.
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:49 pm
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I was born in 1959. It was an extremely good year.  |
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:54 pm
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| Lloyd: on a 16 gauge frame??? |
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:45 pm
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| 12 gauge frame, Rem. made all 870s and 1100s on 12 ga. frames. But both the early 870s and 1100s had slimmer 16 ga. barrels. The later ones had 12 ga. barrel stock bored out to 16 ga. which made them heavier. |
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:46 pm
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At that price nothing else really matters.......
I carried an 870 I bought new for quite a few seasons, hard to wear one out !!! CONGRATS !! |
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:42 pm
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Dale:
I'm thinking 6 lbs 9.6 as I'm in nowhere Pennsylvania and I'm using my in-laws bathroom scale (at least it's digital). I had read somewhere (here?) that the early 870s were OK, as far as weight was concerned. This one has been used fairly hard and needs a good cleaning but can you really hurt an 870 by just using it and then not cleaning it well? I'm guessing not really. Got a neighbor who's looking to the learn upland (he's got a new Lab). I think he's gonna appreciate this one. It's the first of these I've ever run across. Now I've got to figure out how to get it on the airplane home. Cheap hard-case at Wal-Mart and some combination locks should do it.. |
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Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:58 pm
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It's not a handgun, so why not mail it to yourself USPS Priority. You already own it, so it's not a transfer. You can legally ship it to your home address.
The 870 takes down to the length of the barrel, so it won't be too bulky or heavy either. A lot less of a hassle all around IMO. |
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:33 pm
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| Interesting idea. I'll look into it. |
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Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:55 pm
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At that price nothing else really matters.......
I carried an 870 I bought new for quite a few seasons, hard to wear one out !!! CONGRATS !!
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A guy I worked with asked me to have a look at his 870, as it was "acting up". His folks had given him the gun for Christmas, in 1968, and he used it hard, for duck and goose hunting, every year.
I got the gun home, and found it to be literally so packed with hard oil, plant debris, and feathers you couldn't cycle it. I ended up taking the wood off and soaking the metal parts in dip type carb solvent to get it clean. He had NEVER cleaned it, and never stored it anywhere else but in the bottom of his duck boat. He had carved his girlfriend's initials in the buttstock, so, all the finish was gone on one side of the wood.
After it was cleaned and lubed, all was good. I've got to say, it cycled flawlessly, probably three lifetimes worth of "break in' helped that to happen. How it looked, was a different story-what a sorry looking shotgun!
Haven't heard from him since, I imagine it still works-he said he would call when it needed cleaning again.
That was about 15 years ago...
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Last edited by Ted Schefelbein on Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:40 am; edited 1 time in total
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:43 am
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| Lloyd does it have the ringed, "corn cob" forend? |
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Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:52 am
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| Gil- No, not ringed...more of a shaped one like the later guns. The really early guns have that ringed forend you mentioned, much like the Model 31s had. And, like the gun Ted mentioned, this one looks like it's been in the bottom of a duck boat too. |
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