S&J follower for 870. Does it take up any extra room?

Steveo830 said:
I have an 870 Police Magnum with the factory +2 extension. Right now will hold six 3" shells in the mag tube with about 1/4" to spare.

If I install a S&J Hardware No-Jam follower, will it take up any extra space at the end of the tube and reduce the shell capacity?
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I bought the one that is suppose to take up less room for my mossy 590. Tonight I noticed it did take up extra room, caused the 8th round to not go in, limiting my capacity by one. I took it out and polished the factory follower and im now back to 8 + 1 for capacity.
 
GunGuy34 said:
I bought the one that is suppose to take up less room for my mossy 590. Tonight I noticed it did take up extra room, caused the 8th round to not go in, limiting my capacity by one. I took it out and polished the factory follower and im now back to 8 + 1 for capacity.
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Did you try trimming a couple coils off your spring like Simon suggested?
 
EL34/6L6 said:
↑↑ I experienced that before. ↑↑

Can you believe all three of these shells are 2 & 3/4 ??!!

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Yes, I've taken a picture like that too. All seem to be of different lengths.
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juancarlos said:
Did you try trimming a couple coils off your spring like Simon suggested?
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No I didn't as I bought two of those followers at once, and put one in my 14 inch 590A1 and it didn't affect the capacity at all, so I just put the other in my 20 inch 590 and didn't think anything of it tell yesterday when I loaded it up to try it out and noticed I lost the capacity of one round.

Not sure if I want to trim my spring, the gun has seen a quite a few rounds now and the spring is on the weaker side. A simple polish job on the stock follower did the trick anyhow, as there was nothing wrong with it before, I just figured id try out the s&J follower. Its a good product, not knocking it at all.
 
Why not trim the extra spring that came with the follower instead, if you don't want to cut the factory one?
 
Oh, I see. In my 870 I added a no jam follower and added a +1 extension. I used the factory spring and loading is real smooth with it and no feeding problems at all. Gun is now 18.5" and 7+1.
 
GunGuy34 said:
No I didn't as I bought two of those followers at once, and put one in my 14 inch 590A1 and it didn't affect the capacity at all, so I just put the other in my 20 inch 590 and didn't think anything of it tell yesterday when I loaded it up to try it out and noticed I lost the capacity of one round.

Not sure if I want to trim my spring, the gun has seen a quite a few rounds now and the spring is on the weaker side. A simple polish job on the stock follower did the trick anyhow, as there was nothing wrong with it before, I just figured id try out the s&J follower. Its a good product, not knocking it at all.
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It's odd, I had them in two different 20" Mossbergs and was still able to get max capacity without trimming the spring.
 
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