First, they based the 12-gauge 870 around the receiver of the 16-gauge 11-48 semiauto, assuring that the gun would be trim and light, while cutting costs by using a shared part. The 870 could have been a cheapened shadow of the Model 31, but the Remington design team made a number of smart decisions that resulted in an all-new, great, mass-produced shotgun. Courtesy of the Rock Island Auction Company The Remington Model 31 was Remington’s pump gun before the 870. Made of machined and hand-fitted parts, the gun was so smooth Remington marketed it as the “ball-bearing repeater.” It came in both an all-steel version and a lightweight alloy-frame model, and many believe it was every bit as good as its main competition, the famous Winchester Model 12. In the 1940s, Remington already had a great pump gun: the Model 31. This year the 870 turns 70 years old, and it’s a perfect time to look back at a gun that shouldn’t have been great, but turned out to be a classic.
450 Nitro double rifle for dangerous African game, sat the 870 that the owner shot every morning of the 60 day season. In the gun room, between a $100,000 Italian O/U for live pigeon competition and a. It was a duck camp in the same way that a diamond is, technically, a rock. Years ago I stayed at a mansion built amid three of the first Greentree reservoirs in Arkansas. Sometimes you’ll see 870s in places you wouldn’t expect to. In short, anywhere someone needs a rugged, no-nonsense shotgun, an 870 is probably there. My favorite place for an 870 is resting on my knee as I sit against a tree trunk in the turkey woods, but you will see them in duck blinds, cornfields, treestands, police cruisers, military armories, pickup trucks, and in the rack at gun clubs. With over 11,000,000 made, Remington 870s are everywhere.
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