870 express

[cassandrasdaddy]

room mate got a new 870 did they always have the lil lever that you have to depress everytime you rack the action to release it? its been a while since i had one. and is it removable/bypassable?

and even more importantly safely? i almost wanna leave it its his first shotgun and you can't be too safe but it makes doubles swhooting skeet real challenge. and i'm already challenged by em

 

[Hoppy590]

you only have to depress the lever to clear the chamber when a round hasnt been fired. if you buy some snap caps. ( dummy rounds) and use those you will see. Chamber a round. you must press lever to clear chamber. then if chamber a round, fire the weapon, the slide will move with out the lever being depressed.

this is there so that the chamber doesnt open on its own. all shotguns have some form or another

 

[9mmMike]

Imagine a gun that you had to hold closed while you fired it.

 

[bigjohn]

i'm gonna chime in and say hoppy is right. its more for loading and unloading, not to be pressed every time you work the action.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

thanks

thanks its been so long i thought my memory was failing i will let him shoot it as soon as the construction crew next door quits for day. he scares em with his shooting

 

[nomadboi]

Yeah, I ran into that on a film set- they wanted to have the hero do the one-handed racking the shotgun schtick, and it took us a little while to figure out that release thingie- I hadn't ever had that problem before, it's not like I'm doing one-handed racks while hunting or at the range... and since this was on a film set we hadn't always fired the gun right before the racking shot.

 

[oletymer]

You need to get familiar with guns. Untill then please keep away from other people.

 

[ArmedBear]

Not nice, oletymer.

Here's a more useful bit of info: http://www.remington.com/library/downloads/owners_manuals.asp

 

[nomadboi]

Wasn't my gun- I was providing almost all the handguns (mostly plugged-barrel blank fire replicas or gas-blowback airsofts, if not solid rubber), and at the time didn't even own any long guns. I have since gotten one of my dad's old 870s, and am learning. Don't remember what model of shotgun this was that they were borrowing from one of the crew. They just figured 'hey, he's the gun guy, let's ask him'... I can tell you where just about any brand or type of blank fire replica vents, and the safety issues involved, how to rig up squibs (meaning bullet hit effects, not misfiring rounds), etc, but I'm perfectly willing to admit there's plenty I don't know. Still, if nobody else in the area knows either, and someone's determined to try something, I'll do my best to make sure they're being safe. All I can do.

 

[Lou629]

its been a while since i had one.

I think Oletymer was trying to say the same thing i thought: Is it just me, or do others find it hard to imagine that anyone who had become familiar with an 870, or any pump shotgun, could "forget" about the slide-release?

 

[nomadboi]

It happens. I'd been duck hunting and trap/skeet shooting with my dad in high school, but hand't handled a shotgun in about ten years at the time of the filming I mentioned above. I imagine it'd be different if I'd owned one, but hey, not all of us get to go shooting very often.