Light Contour Barrel

[Sven]

What is a 'light contour' barrel?

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

About 10 years ago--Remington came out with the light contour barrel because their autoloaders were way too heavy------the LC barrel cuts about 1/2lb off the weight of the gun.

Not all their guns have LC barrels though---if you get to swithing around fore-ends------you might to remove some material----or the other way around you'll have too large a gap-----Others will know the details better than I do.

[Sven]

Could somebody fill me in on this?

Would buying a 'light contour' barrelled 870 cause problems if I were to switch barrels later.

Dave?

Gracias,

-s

[Dave McCracken]

No, Sven, no probs later.

The LC barrels are much like the oldest 870 barrels, made before idiots on a jury awarded tons of Remington money to idiots that plugged their barrels, shot them and blamed the company for their stupidity and ignorance of proper safety procedures.

I've got to get pretty close to see if a barrels LC or not. The forends interchange.

One small caveat, due to the lack of QC these days in Ilion,some barrels are non concentric.

HTH...

[mikey357]

...actually, IIRC, the "Heavy Contour" barrels originated when Remington first introduced their interchangeable choke tube, the "Remchoke"...they thickened the barrel walls on all their shotguns to accomodate the threads at the muzzle end of the barrel...remember, we are NOT talking about a "thin-wall" choke tube here...at any rate, apparently a LOT of people were unhappy with the weight and balance of the new, "Heavy Contour" barrels--my terminology--hence, the coming of the "Light Contour" barrels a few years later...FWIW, I spoke to the SE regional Remington Rep at a Skeet tournament not long after the intro of the "Remchoke", and told him that they had RUINED the balance of their repeaters...he said at the time the the weight difference was "Insignificant"...I asked did he know how much it was...he opined that it was ONLY an ounce or two...more like six or eight ounces or a little more, in my experience!!! Apparently, the powers-that-be at Big Green did NOT do their market research on this one, 'cause the "Heavy Contour" barrels were--and are--HUGELY UNPOPULAR with the clay target crowd.
BTW, while the original, pre-Remchoke barrels, the "Heavy Contour" Remchoked barrels and the "Light Contour" barrels SHOULD all interchange on any same-gauge/frame version of the 870, the same is NOT true for the 1100 and 11-87...some forend "swapping" or minor modification MAY BE needed IF you change to a different-contour barrel on one of the autos...FWIW....mikey357