Modern Wingmasters? Quality Level?

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Call me nostalgic or an idiot...either apply depending upon the time of day sometimes ;-)

I've been eyeballing the latest iterations of the Wingmasters from Remington and am especially drawn to the special edition ones such as the 200th Anniversary version and the American Classic. My concern is whether the slide in quality at Remington has affected these guns and if any of you have any direct experience with them?

Prices are pretty steep for a pump gun and am looking for opinions on worth it or not so much. Primary use will be an all around shogun for chasing waterfowl and bush chickens and maybe the occasional slug during deer season.

I have dedicated target guns for skeet and sporting clays with my Guerini and Cynergy.
 
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They look just as nice, although I usually go for less elaborate etching on the wood... I like the base Wingmaster the best, not into the special editions. Whether they were better years ago, I'm sure there's a dedicated group of people who would say they were. I really don't know.
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I sold my express and picked up a new production wingmaster. It is smooth and shoots straight with everything I feed it. Some of the older ones I've handled felt a lot smother in the pump action but I'm sure that will come with more shots through it. It does feel much better than the express which tells me there is a little more to it than just nice wood and blueing. But I don't know for sure.
 
Twin Action Bars and solid Billet Steel for the bolt...
what more do you want in a Wing-Master.
The American Walnut is getting kinda plain, but when they have been making gunstocks for hundreds of years the old trees are bound to be going the
way of the DoDo Bird.

The Wing-Master will last a very long time and look good too.
Rob
 
don't get wrong I love the wingmaster , learned how to shoot with one. the express has a plastic trigger installed which broke during a cold deer hunt. Some one told me the new wingmasters have same plastic trigger . not sure if that's true but it is a weak spot.
 
Kenny said:
don't get wrong I love the wingmaster , learned how to shoot with one. the express has a plastic trigger installed which broke during a cold deer hunt. Some one told me the new wingmasters have same plastic trigger . not sure if that's true but it is a weak spot.
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Plastic trigger guard ? And/or some plastic trigger parts ? Would like to know as well.
 
no, the internal parts are plastic, It was my son in laws gun . he took it to smith and the guy told him what was wrong before he even looked at it. Sold Him a old trigger assembly from a wingmaster , works fine. he said the plastic tends not to stand up in bitter cold
 
Kenny said:
no, the internal parts are plastic, It was my son in laws gun . he took it to smith and the guy told him what was wrong before he even looked at it. Sold Him a old trigger assembly from a wingmaster , works fine. he said the plastic tends not to stand up in bitter cold
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Are you serious ? Some of the internal trigger parts are plastic ?

I'm a big 870 fan but no way I'd deal with plastic trigger parts. I have no problem with a polymer trigger guard, but parts ??? That stuff would be getting swapped pretty quickly !!

Thanks for the heads up on that issue ..
 
Kenny said:
no, the internal parts are plastic, It was my son in laws gun . he took it to smith and the guy told him what was wrong before he even looked at it. Sold Him a old trigger assembly from a wingmaster , works fine. he said the plastic tends not to stand up in bitter cold
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To clarify, are you talking your son in laws gun was an express or a wingmaster?
 
I'll be the outlier here and say that current wingmasters are not the same quality as previous generations especially since big green went private equity almost ten years ago. I went to the trouble of importing an older stock NIB 870 LW Wingmaster in 28ga from the US because the current models didn't have the same wood, bluing, polishing of the internals or wood to metal finish and I looked at a lot of them. Everything Remington produces nowadays has been cost cut and if you don't want to believe that go ahead, I won't bother explaining what PE firms do with their portfolio of assets.

Patrick
 
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