In 1999, I purchased a brand new Rem 870, Light Contour, 12 gauge shotgun with screw in chokes. I would like to buy a second barrel to shoot slugs (smooth bore,no rifling,cylinder bore). I know the general rule is that 870 barrels can be swapped out with in gauge, but I thought that I read years ago that when it comes to the Light Contour frame, it could not be done. I'm I wrong ? If so, where can I get a slug barrel with adjustable rear sight ? Thanks.
Bird gun to slugs
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I had a similar experience with the Upland Special which has a 2 round, no plug magazine.
I am not familiar with your model but I believe that short magazine is the issue with respect interchangability. The solution would to move the ring or contact Remington about building a barrel to specs.
I am not familiar with your model but I believe that short magazine is the issue with respect interchangability. The solution would to move the ring or contact Remington about building a barrel to specs.
oneounceload
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Why not just buy a cylinder choke if that's the constriction you want?
T.R.
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12 gauge slug guns kick real bad!! I recommend a Limb Saver slip on pad to reduce the pain.
In contrast, a CVA Optima shoots a sabot with 44 MAG bullet with exceptional accuracy at 100 yards. Recoil is moderate, about the same as a 30-30. Just a suggestion as an alternative to a hard kicking 12 gauge slug gun.
TR
In contrast, a CVA Optima shoots a sabot with 44 MAG bullet with exceptional accuracy at 100 yards. Recoil is moderate, about the same as a 30-30. Just a suggestion as an alternative to a hard kicking 12 gauge slug gun.
TR
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Slugs haven't really bothered me other than loosening the grip of my shooting handgun into my face.
blackDdefense
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here you go. No need to buy a barrel to shoot slugs.
http://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/PROD/remington-choke-tubes/RemChoke
http://www.midwestgunworks.com/page/mgwi/PROD/remington-choke-tubes/RemChoke
Omaha-BeenGlockin
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I believe the issue was that the forend wasn't relieved enough for a Std barrel.
I would simply buy a plastic forend and metal work to use with your slug barrel and then switch back to the wood one when using the LC barrel. Easy to do and cheap.
I would simply buy a plastic forend and metal work to use with your slug barrel and then switch back to the wood one when using the LC barrel. Easy to do and cheap.
rcmodel
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If you have screw-in choke tubes, you do not need to buy another barrel.
As others had already said, all you need to buy is a CYL choke tube.
A dedicated barrel for slugs would shoot just exactly like the barrel you already have.
rc
As others had already said, all you need to buy is a CYL choke tube.
A dedicated barrel for slugs would shoot just exactly like the barrel you already have.
rc
pikid89
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how well do the "rifled" choke tubes work for shooting sabots out of a smooth bore?
or are they just a waste of time
or are they just a waste of time
blackDdefense
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Not sure. The smoothbore barrels do okay with rifled slugs.
Dave McCracken
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Here's what I'd do....
Stay with your barrel and get A, an open choke tube,IC, Skeet or Cylinder.
B, Willams and others make open sights that fasten to a vent rib.
An option here would be a rifled choke tube. I have one on the 870 I use for deer. It wears a regular choke outside the season and is stuffed with 00.
Or, get a slug barrel for more money. Some 870s with the Light Contour barrels need the forearm relieved a bit to take other barrels. Most, I understand, do not.
All 870 parts, except for the Special Field variants, are supposed to be interchangable within gauge. The ones I've swapped certainly did.
I have little experience with sabots, but rifled slugs out of smoothbores with or without a rifled choke tube give me less than 5" groups ETE at 100 yards and sometime sless than 4". That translates into "Minute Of Deer" at typical ranges here and now.
HTH....
Stay with your barrel and get A, an open choke tube,IC, Skeet or Cylinder.
B, Willams and others make open sights that fasten to a vent rib.
An option here would be a rifled choke tube. I have one on the 870 I use for deer. It wears a regular choke outside the season and is stuffed with 00.
Or, get a slug barrel for more money. Some 870s with the Light Contour barrels need the forearm relieved a bit to take other barrels. Most, I understand, do not.
All 870 parts, except for the Special Field variants, are supposed to be interchangable within gauge. The ones I've swapped certainly did.
I have little experience with sabots, but rifled slugs out of smoothbores with or without a rifled choke tube give me less than 5" groups ETE at 100 yards and sometime sless than 4". That translates into "Minute Of Deer" at typical ranges here and now.
HTH....
hardluk1
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Remington does also offer a rifled screw in tube if you feel you need to add a bit a stability to some thing like there buck hammer slugs.
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