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I took my new Remington 870 28ga Express out this afternoon and got a squirrel on route to a roost shoot (thats shooting Wood Pigeons as they come in with full crops to roost for the night).
My old Rossi single barrel 28ga was a proven killer but the Remington is a real joy. I have in the past had two Savage pump actions, a 12 and a 20 and sold them when our Nanny State said they had to be permantly limited to 3 shots. I couldn't see the sense in paying good money to make a gun fire less shots! But when I saw the 870 I just had to have it!
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
Depresses barbed wire, paddles a boat, gets me out of deep mud, moves trees branches (all while unloaded, of course), kills ducks and pheasant dead (when loaded, of course).
The 870 Express is the Abrams tank of the 12ga. world. There's no better shotgun for the way I hunt, or the conditions hunt in.
Gk you take a good photo, I'm glad you found a hansom feller to stand in for you I asked some questions about that 28 on a post of mine, I'll catch up soon
Love those 870's! Learned to love them when I was in law enforcement. We used 870's most of my career. We also had semi-auto Remingtons, but I always used an 870. We trained with timed drills on steel targets and I was as fast with the 870 as everyone else was with the semi-autos.
One reason I preferred them was the deterrent effect of that universally recognized sound when racking a round into the chamber. Just not the same with an autoloader. To illustrate, one day I took an 870 from the gun safe at work. Our janitor was on the other side of the room emptying the trash cans. I worked the action to make sure it was unloaded and the janitor, whose back was to me, stood up, stiffened, and turned pale when he heard that sound. Made me wonder what he did before he became our janitor.
Nice squirrel. Looks like a plump little thing that'll sweeten the pot.
I love the Remington 870. I've got three of them -- all 12ga. Never had a glitch with any of em and they've all had hundreds of shells through them. The oledst has probably had thousands through it and it's as tight as the day I got it.
ain't much that you can't do with with the 870 12ga. hunting birds to elephants. home defense, sport shooting. enough barrels,chokes, and loads to do it all. proably the most versatile firearm you can legally posess.
I hear that the Ameican grey squirrel is over running you guys and your native red squirrel. That 870 will do the trick. Do you need a recipe for squirrel dumplings? Can ya'll hunt the reds?
The Remington 870 is to shotguns, what the Marlin 336 is to rifles. It and the Winchester Model 12 are the only repeating shotguns I'll own. Nice pics...
"I have reached up to the gun rack and taken down the .30/30 carbine by some process of natural selection, not condoned perhaps by many experts but easily explained by those who spend long periods in the wilderness areas."~Calvin Rutstrum~
"You come to the swamp, you better leave your skirt at the house"~Dave Canterbury~
I myself, have two. A 12 gauge adorned in Max-4 and a 20 gauge that now sports an S&K (they make all the new laminated stocks) laminated stock. They are the "chevy small block" of the shotgun world!
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I hear that the Ameican grey squirrel is over running you guys and your native red squirrel. That 870 will do the trick. Do you need a recipe for squirrel dumplings? Can ya'll hunt the reds?
Thanks but I have plenty of squirrel recipes, they are becoming more popular here now, even some fancy restaurants have it on the menu!
The red squirrel is now only found in a few small areas and is definitely not on the hunting list!
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
Nice gun, and good hunting! I bought a Full choke for my Remington 1100 Sporting 28 to go squirrel hunting this year, but had my 16 ga. Ithaca 37 with me the one time I got to take a poke at one of them buggers. The 28 sure is a sweet gauge though.
I assume the 870 has a fixed Modified choke. What are you using for shells? Those look like Winchester field loads, but I'm guessing they're a European brand instead. 3/4 oz of #6, or where you using a heavier shot charge?
Michael,
Yes it's a modified choke and I was using Eley 3/4 oz 7's.
Over here because the grey squirrel is considered such a pest we shoot out any drey's we see and having a pump action I still have two shots left if any squirrel's jump out of the nest!
I did use a 3 shot B/A .410 but the 28G is whole lot better.
Good to here you use a 16G too!
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
Hobie wrote:I have a 28 ga. Quite nice to shoot and much more certain than the .410 bore.
Honestly, I'm suprised the 28 ga. didn't kill the .410 off 70 years ago. Everything the .410 does in the field, the 28 ga. does better. Plus its recoil is light enough that young shooters can handle it, and it puts out enough shot that is a useful, viable gauge for adults. I'm suprised gun makers and the public never got behind it more, and the 20 ga. was chosen as THE youth gauge rather than the 28.
