When was remington 870 made

The Remington Model is a U. It is widely used by law enforcement as a defensive weapon and by the public for target shooting, hunting, and self-defense. The Remington was the fourth major design in a series of Remington pump shotguns. John Pedersen designed the fragile Remington Model 10 and later the improved Model Working with John Browning , Pedersen also helped design the Model 17 which was adopted by Ithaca as the Ithaca 37 and also served as the basis for the Remington Model The Model 31 was an excellent shotgun, but struggled for sales in the shadow of the Winchester Model Remington sought to correct that by introducing in a modern, streamlined, rugged, reliable, and relatively inexpensive shotgun, the Wingmaster.

Remington announced their four-millionth Model Shotgun! Remington introduced the Model SP Special Purpose Magnum gun with inch or inch, full choke, vent rib barrel, a no-sheen, satin finish on exposed metal parts, and a subdued oil finished hardwood stock. This gun was designed for waterfowling and turkey shooting.

Remington re-styled the Model Wingmaster with a Bradley-type ivory bead front sight, and raised diamond style, cut-checkering on the satin finished walnut stock and fore-end. In , Remington introduced the new RemChoke system with interchangeable improved cylinder, modified and full chokes which became standard on inch and inch barrels.

This patented device allowed the shooter to use a wrench to change the shotgun to full, modified or improved cylinder chokes. Remington introduced the lower cost Model Express , which differs from the standard Model line only in exterior matte finish and low luster hardwood stock and forend. RemChoke was now expanded to additional Model 12 gauge and 20 gauge shotguns.

Remington introduced a Model Express Combo with inch slug barrel and inch ventilated rib barrel. The Model TC Trap Grade shotgun received a new stock style and dimensions, and a new inch overbored barrel with RemChoke system or fixed, full choke. Special Purpose stocks and forends were changed to American walnut and a cantilever scope mount option was added to the 12 gauge Deer Gun line.

Remington also added a fully rifled 12 gauge Deer gun , and. Remington also introduced the Model Express in. Light contour barrels for the Remington Model shotgun were designed in , and became common on these shotguns thereafter. Remington announced production of the six-millionth Model shotgun! The 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. First, they based the gauge around the receiver of the gauge semiauto, assuring that the gun would be trim and light, while cutting costs by using a shared part.

They connected the slide to the bolt with twin action bars in place of the single bar common to many pumps, reducing the possibility of twisting or binding the pumping stroke.

They designed a trigger group that could be easily removed by popping out two pins, and a barrel that not only could be removed simply by unscrewing the magazine cap, but was also completely interchangeable without fitting. The result was a gun that was light and lively, affordable, easy to take apart and maintain, reliable, and versatile. With one gun and extra barrels, you could use the same for long-range ducks and close-range quail. Introduced in 12, 16, and 20 gauge from the start, as well as in Trap and Skeet grade, the was an instant success.

The trap version was first shown at the Grand American Handicap in the summer of , and Rudy Etchen of Kansas used one of the new s to become the first shooter ever to break straight trap doubles.

It was the bottom-of-the-boat duck gun that functioned no matter how cold or muddy the hunt, and it would go on to serve under harsh combat conditions in jungles and deserts as well.

A 3-inch magnum gauge joined the lineup in , followed by the magnum 20 five years later, and s have been offered in a model for nearly every conceivable application. One of the most important introductions occurred in , when the Express model came out. A budget version of the , it had a hardwood stock in place of walnut and a lower level of polish inside and out, but in all other ways it was identical to the original. An Express has been the first shotgun of countless shooters, and many of them have never seen any reason to shoot anything else.

I customized the one I use for turkeys with a Monte Carlo stock for scope use and a Timney Trigger Fix kit to give it a rifle-like trigger pull. The other Super Magnum is a bad-weather waterfowl gun. It has an oversized safety, a metal magazine follower, a stainless magazine spring, a stronger police-model carrier spring, and a machined extractor.

You do have to slide the fore-end forward to load another shell. The recoil on this gun is pretty tame too. Shoot trap with light target loads, and the recoil on the SXP is similar to a gas-operated shotgun. TriStar owner Gus Bader is a true gun guy. And he cares about making quality shotguns at reasonable prices.

He will often just grab a random gun off the production line and put it through the ringer to make sure it functions properly. And one thing I hear from TriStar owners all the time is the fit on these guns is incredible. Joe Genzel is the associate editor at Outdoor Life. Genzel grew up chasing mallards and Canada geese in the Illinois River Valley. But since the only thing left to hunt in Illinois besides whitetails are grays and foxtails, he now spends most of the fall and winter searching for oak and black walnut trees, and walking behind a crazy Russian squirrel dog named Vladimir.