870 DA Conversion

It is possible, but you would be far better off selling it for a premium and replacing it with a standard 870.

The cost of switching it over would be as much as a new express. I know the trigger guard assembly would have to come out. Add the tube spring and follower. Just the assembly would be be around $150.

I haven't been inside a new Remington Mag fed shotgun but some probable things to be added/replaced......

I don't know if these guns use a standard magazine tube but if not, a magazine follower and spring may not be retained in the tube.
Replacement of an 870 magazine tube requires a trip back to the factory to have the tube un-brazed and removed, a new tube brazed in using a special alignment fixture, and since the ejector has to be removed, a new ejector assembly would need to be riveted in and the entire receive refinished.

I'd imagine you'd have to stake in a pair of shell stops.

The trigger group would need to be replaced.

Cost will be close to the price of a new gun.

Is the DA conversion something that can be moved to another gun?

For everything 870 related... here's a site that offers free technical assistance by a Remington certified armorer that specializes in shotguns for the street.... He's posted on this site a few times as well..
https://aiptactical.com/

Hope this helps from a guy who always had an 870 in hand on any hot call for many years...

I’m an 870 Armorer (Cert is good until 2022) but we didn’t study the DM so that one is out of my wheelhouse.

I would take the sage advice of the above posters and clean well, then list/consign the gun for sale. Right now anything “defense” or “tactical” is flying off the shelves at MSRP or higher. You might as well cash in and let the next owner worry about finding new or extra magazines. That’s what those of us who buy obsolete mil-surp and other old semi-autos do all the time.

Take your newly minted wad of cash and buy a regular 870 (Or a Mossberg or Browning or Ithaca or ...) when the madness subsides.

I know the “why” Remington and Mossberg built the DM style guns, and the idea makes a bit of sense, but the final product is so unwieldy that the “need” to fix the slow reloads (Or load changes) shotguns are famous for just isn’t worth it to the shotgun buying masses.

Good luck!

Stay safe.

Isn’t that a new product from Remington? Now it is gone? I will stick by my dinosaur style tube fed Wingmaster lol.

lemaymiami said:

For everything 870 related... here's a site that offers free technical assistance by a Remington certified armorer that specializes in shotguns for the street.... He's posted on this site a few times as well..
https://aiptactical.com/

Hope this helps from a guy who always had an 870 in hand on any hot call for many years...

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Yeah, JD does not like THR, and left some years ago. This is his forum site, you could ask on there; you might not want to mention THR.

https://www.combat-shotgun.com/

Didn't know that, thanks Entropy. He was helpful on my one contact with him a year or two ago...