- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
So I put together a spare parts 870 recently, sort of a truck gun or loaner or spare gun as I have some extra barrels kicking around. It’s a used 870 express receiver I bought for a good price with a take off synthetic stock and a 12.5” grizzly barrel from my mag fed grizzly that wearing a 14” barrel, the barrel had the tall front sight post from the ghost ring sights some grizzly’s had and it needed to be cut down. The internals and bolt/breach block have been polished and the action is butter smooth.
I had marked the level of the top of the receiver on the front sight base last week and test fired it at 25y to make sure of where I wanted to cut it, had some time tonight to grab the hacksaw and file. I had already made a threaded brass post to install and file down into a quasi bead, after I cut and filed the base smooth I drilled and tapped the hole for the brass bead. I used a bit of 600g paper wrapped around a file to smooth any file marks and touched up the new ramped base with cold blue before I blue locktite’d the brass post in and filed it into a bead. Wiped it all down with an oily rag and it’s ready to live in the truck, I’ve got a 28” vent rib barrel it will wear if someone needs a loaner gun and it will likely see double duty with a rifled slug barrel for spring bear hunting.
Here’s the new diy front sight set up, pretty happy with it. It’s low and shouldn’t catch on anything when I drag it out of the back of the truck, only thing else I’ll do to it is upgrade the follower and mag spring and maybe a police extractor. With the synthetic stock and 12.5” barrel it weighs in at 6.5lbs, should be nice weight to hike around with.
I had marked the level of the top of the receiver on the front sight base last week and test fired it at 25y to make sure of where I wanted to cut it, had some time tonight to grab the hacksaw and file. I had already made a threaded brass post to install and file down into a quasi bead, after I cut and filed the base smooth I drilled and tapped the hole for the brass bead. I used a bit of 600g paper wrapped around a file to smooth any file marks and touched up the new ramped base with cold blue before I blue locktite’d the brass post in and filed it into a bead. Wiped it all down with an oily rag and it’s ready to live in the truck, I’ve got a 28” vent rib barrel it will wear if someone needs a loaner gun and it will likely see double duty with a rifled slug barrel for spring bear hunting.
Here’s the new diy front sight set up, pretty happy with it. It’s low and shouldn’t catch on anything when I drag it out of the back of the truck, only thing else I’ll do to it is upgrade the follower and mag spring and maybe a police extractor. With the synthetic stock and 12.5” barrel it weighs in at 6.5lbs, should be nice weight to hike around with.
