I picked one up(the 982 with GS sights) a few days ago at Big 5 on sale and it's great. I had one about three years ago and got rid of it(although it was great also) due to the hype about it being Chinese. Well, I'm going to shoot the heck out of this thing and see if it really is inferior to the 870. The 870 Express would have cost me about twice as much. The last Express I had was very rough and had extraction problems so I figured I'd try one of these out again. I've only fired about 60 rounds of 00 buck and slugs out of it
so far. Observations:
-It has a machined extractor compared to the MIM part on the Express
-The mag spring is weak like the Express. Heavy recoil slugs make the rounds
in the mag jump forward resulting in a lack of shell release to the carrier
during quick firing(just like the Express I had). Wolff, here I come!
-It has an aluminum trigger guard!
-The ghost rings are awesome, much better than a bead in my opinion.
I do have some doubts about the brazed on front sight being durable enough
(is this how they are all installed?) though.
-Even though the shell carrier(lifter) is non slotted, if a shell is intentionally
released between the lifter and the bolt, it will still feed(smoothly)
without smacking the butt on the ground. This might be due to a slightly
different lifter shape(?)
-It is parkerized, not "rough" blued like the Express. It is a good looking SG.
-The ghost rings came from the box sighted pretty good for the Wnchester
Super X slugs I was shooting.
In summary, I'm pretty happy with it so far, and confident enough to
load it for the house.
so far. Observations:
-It has a machined extractor compared to the MIM part on the Express
-The mag spring is weak like the Express. Heavy recoil slugs make the rounds
in the mag jump forward resulting in a lack of shell release to the carrier
during quick firing(just like the Express I had). Wolff, here I come!
-It has an aluminum trigger guard!
-The ghost rings are awesome, much better than a bead in my opinion.
I do have some doubts about the brazed on front sight being durable enough
(is this how they are all installed?) though.
-Even though the shell carrier(lifter) is non slotted, if a shell is intentionally
released between the lifter and the bolt, it will still feed(smoothly)
without smacking the butt on the ground. This might be due to a slightly
different lifter shape(?)
-It is parkerized, not "rough" blued like the Express. It is a good looking SG.
-The ghost rings came from the box sighted pretty good for the Wnchester
Super X slugs I was shooting.
In summary, I'm pretty happy with it so far, and confident enough to
load it for the house.