Let's start a list of "easy takedown" pump shotguns.

[mick53]

Need a list of "easy takedown" pump shotguns.

Hey,

Let's make a list of "easy takedown" pump shotguns.

By "easy takedown," I mean pump shotguns that are broken down into the barrel and receiver components quickly and easily like the Winchester Model 12 and the Stevens Model 620.

I believe Remington made a few and I think Marlin did also and I know that there must be others.

There's just something about a shotgun that can be taken fast and easy that appeals to me. Don't ask me to explain it. I can't. I just like 'em.

As a matter of fact, I want one of each! I think I'm about to turn into a niche collector of this type of shotgun.

Thanks,

Mick

 

[6x6pinz]

The Remington 870 is about as easy as it gets, much like the Benelli Nova. The Nova's cap is used as the tool for pushing out/in the pins that hold the trigger group in place, not much left to take apart for regular maintenance after that.

 

[natman]

The Remington 870 is about as easy as it gets, much like the Benelli Nova. The Nova's cap is used as the tool for pushing out/in the pins that hold the trigger group in place, not much left to take apart for regular maintenance after that.

I think you've misunderstood the OP's definition of "easy takedown". The 870 is easy to disassemble, but it doesn't separate into receiver and barrel components, at least not easily.

 

[Fred Fuller]

Not mentioned so far...

1) Double barrels (nope, not pumpguns. But they started the 'takedown' idea.)

2) Winchester Model 1897 take-down versions (note that some 97s were solid frame - design based on Browning's 1893 patent)

3) Stevens 520s, the predecessor to the 620 (based on a Browning patent from 1903 - noticing a trend here?)

4) Burgess Folding Police Shotgun (developed earlier but not patented until 1894, provided the basis for the takedown system used on the Stevens 520/620)

 

[mick53]

I think you've misunderstood the OP's definition of "easy takedown". The 870 is easy to disassemble, but it doesn't separate into receiver and barrel components, at least not easily.

You got it, natman. I'm talking about "easy takedowns" like this one.

Thanks,
Mick

 

[MCgunner]

My coach gun is a dove killing machine. I bought it because it was the ONLY type that would fit in my GoldWing's top trunk for dove hunting trips, had to be under 24" for all components. Even my old 28" barreled Spanish made double didn't cut it. I prefer doubles to pumps, anyway, and I've been likin' this thing ever since I got it, my go to dove gun at this point. Don't have the Wing anymore, but I can stash the gun in a backpack and strap that to one of my other motorcycles or do as I did yesterday and carry it in a military scabbard strapped to the side of my KLR650 like the Duke used to do with his Winchester on his horse. Makes for some funny looks in traffic, too. An assembled 28" barreled repeater wouldn't work for the scabbard, either.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Easy peasy... all three-sie. 97,12 and 520.

 

[mick53]

C'mon guys, I know there are more of them. Please help out with this.

Thanks,

Mick

 

[Fred Fuller]

Mick,

I've been racking my poor damaged brain over this interesting question, and I can't recall any others. Of course, there are a number of older pumpgun models I'm not familiar with much or at all, like the Marlin pumps that were contemporary with the Winchester 93/97, and the Remington pumps before the 870. There may be more takedowns out there, but so far the list that can be compiled from what's listed here plumbs the depths of my personal knowledge and experience.

Anyone else?

 

[ugaarguy]

I'm not familiar with much or at all, like the Marlin pumps that were contemporary with the Winchester 93/97, and the Remington pumps before the 870.

You made me curious. So I went to Remington's historical firearms section of their website, and began Googling the models listed there. Here's what I found:

Remington Model 10 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep5BEsIVU4s&feature=related , http://www.remington.com/products/archived/shotguns/pump-action/model-10.aspx

Remington Model 29 - http://lonestarfab.com/gunsmithing/remington_model-29/remington_model-29.htm - scroll almost to the bottom - looks to take down like the Model 10.

Unfortunately I've not yet been able to find such a compiled list for the older Marlin shotguns.

 

[mick53]

Found another Remington takedown, the Model 17.

There's some info right here:

http://www.remingtonsociety.com/questions/Model17Answer.htm

Says it was only made in 20ga. I wonder if that ever changed?

 

[ugaarguy]

I think the model 10 was 12 gauge only, and the model 17 was the same shotgun scaled down to 20 gauge.

 

[Old Unc']

Browning BPS...

 

[natman]

Browning BPS...

I didn't know the BPS came in a takedown version. How does the mag tube detach?

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Winchester 42, the 410 version of the Model 12.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Marlin... 120 looking very much and apparently deliberately like a Model 12.
63 Hammerless 1931-33
53 Hammerless 1929-31
49 Exposed hammer 1928-30
44A/S Hammerless 20 Ga 1922-33
43A Hammerless 1922-30
42/42A 1922-33
31 Hammerless 20 Ga 1911-23
16 Ga 1914-17
30 20 Ga 1915-17
16 Ga 1911-17
28 Hammerless 1913-23
"Marlin Field Gun" 1911-12
"Marlin Trap Gun" 1909-12
24 1908-17
19 1906-07
16 1903-10
98 1898-1905

Most were with Marlin's own Heburn invented takedown system - very easy system as requested.