I'm so proud of myself... gotta tell someone!

[honkeoki]

I bought a SpeedFeed IV stock set from CDNN for my 870 -- a hurricane-friendly synthetic stock. This is my first shotgun.

I replaced the stock with no problems -- but then I tried to take off the fore-end, only to learn that you need a special $50 wrench for the job! That's half as much as I paid for the shotgun! I sulked for a while.

My wife was out of town this weekend. I wandered through the house, looking for a good substitute for the special wrench, and found one of these:


The tapered handle fit perfectly into the slots -- the washer/nut thing came off -- easy as pie. It even worked in reverse. The ladle part made a nicely ergonomic handle and it didn't bend or warp at all.

I'm so ridiculously proud of myself -- I feel like MacGyver.

 

[GunnySkox]

Ha! Nice work.

~GnSx
Kissing ass and taking names, today.

 

[Shipwreck]

Congrats on working that out

 

[ArmedBear]

Hurricane-friendly?

Good thing you're in Florida. In Louisiana, hurricane-friendly means camouflaged so you can hide it in the bushes when they come to disarm all the non-criminals.

 

[Roadwild17]

What about those that live in the city , do they offer "urban camo" yet

 

[deputy tom]

Geez,and I'm always complaining about my Wife using silverware as screwdrivers,etc.tom.

 

[Fred Fuller]

honkeoki,

I'm always glad to see people learning their gun better by doing their own work when it's feasible. And I see nothing wrong with saving money either.

But please do me a favor. Take a close look at the fore-end tube nut on your 870, with the action closed. See how close that nut comes to the barrel ring that goes around the magazine tube?

Now, imagine that nut backing itself out a few turns. Can you see what that would do? Chances are the forearm fits on the fore-end tube pretty snugly. It might not move even if the nut loosens up a little bit, so you might not even know the nut was backing out. But that nut might back off enough to contact the barrel ring eventually and stop the gun from going into battery by preventing the bolt from closing all the way- meaning IT WON'T FIRE. It does happen, I have seen it (two folks in my last shotgun class had problems with loose fore-end tube nuts) and so have lots of other people who have spent much tiime around pumpguns.

I'm not saying you need to rush right out and buy a purpose built fore-end nut wrench, or hire a gunsmith every time you want something done to your gun. But I _AM_ saying, please make double sure that nut is not going to come loose on you at some critical time. Murphy has a really sick sense of humor...

Stay safe,

lpl/nc