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870 Taken out of Retirement

Started by NFW, March 30, 2017, 04:23:28 PM

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NFW

Yeah it's another youth 870 but this is the first real gun I ever had its now 17 years old, can't tell you how many dove hunts I had with this thing growing up. As I got older I out grew it and was left in corner for girls to use. About 3 years about I saw people really getting into the 20g crave. We'll having a gun I haven't used in a long time and the urge to finally have a dedicated turkey gun I figured this would be the ultimate bring back to life project. Last year was the first step just simple tape wrap and getting a pistol grip and a cheap truglo turkey choke. Which actually help stone a huge ga bird on the last day from my avatar. But this season came around and finally decided to give it the works. First bought a new sumtoy added a vortex red dot and just did the cheap bottomland wrap, as I could not find anyone to do it to be able to use it this spring, but I'm happy with it. Done some patterning with the HW 7's little bit of mixed results either due to a not completely clean barrel or shells itself. Now they were the same lot # 5U but one box at 40 shot 177 then the next could barely get over 100. Regardless of the #'s from box to box at 40 this gun will kill all day. Just glad I have some history and story with this gun and glad its getting taken out of retirement.







nyhunter

 :icon_thumright: she's a nice looking gun,      I did the same with my old 870 20ga except it had a 26in barrel so i bought a 21". As for your patter inconsistency i had this same issue with both barrels and many choke's. someone on here told me to clean the barrel with denatured alcohol and dry patch it between shots. Well it work like a charm. do not use anything like hoppies or any gun cleaner and if you have a bore snake toss it over the bank there a gimmick in my opinion. what your looking for is NO oil or residue in the barrel, just squeaky CLEAN and DRY . try this and see if it helps.

NFW

Just did a little retest today at 40 and got a good average, 156 in 10" super even. Still don't see how same lot numbers don't shoot the same.


owlhoot

Neat looking gun.

There is one thing you can be looking at and that is the shot counts in the 11"or even 12" circle.
Your inconsistency could be just just right there . Also check a 11" square for pellet count on target to target.
Now the big differences down to 100 from 150? Have never seen it except when someone gets the shells mixed up. Not speaking from experience of course. HW 6's to hw7.

Cleaning is a big thing with some loads . A good clean can bring new life to a gun,load and choke combo.
Any cleaning solvent or oil in the barrel is a good way to get pattern to jump around.
Deep clean all you want, polish all you want.But get that stuff out of the barrel when you finish. Denatured alcohol works great, learned that on here. Some thing that evaporates and leaves the metal squeaking clean.
I would hate to think of the loads  we shot and said no to that would have been much better if we had always done it before.lol
Had even sold a gun to a friend that cleaned the heck out of it and all he had to get the oil and gunk out of the barrel was breakclean or carb cleaners. He went and shot the gun with Magblends 3"shells at 40 yards and got in the 200 in the 10".  I said no way and went up to check it out myself as the gun had not come close to that before.  Sure enough it did and got the Federal hw7 at 180-190 too. Good luck.

turkey buster

Awesome gun and story...but watch that poison ivy on that tree..lol