1887 Winchester Lever action shotgun

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Anyone here have any experience with the Winchester 1887 shotguns? Picked one up today at the auction and curious if I can fire modern 2 3/4" inch ammo. My understanding is that this gun was built with a 2 5/8" chamber. It cycles and chambers the 2 3/4 stuff no problem but I figured I'd ask before I went and started shooting it... If I have to, Epps stocks 2.5" ammo...
 
Put a 2 3/4" fired shell in the chamber and make sure that you can eject it. The problem that I had with the model 87 was that while a loaded shell will fit in and eject ok, after firing, if the shell is too long, it will not eject. Also had problems with the extractors tearing through the rim of the shell if it was slightly sticky.
I liked the gun in the sense that the lever was easy to operate and the only reason that I sold it was the extraction problem

cheers mooncoon
 
2.5" vs 2.75"

Hey Tactical 870, those "87's" need 2.5" black powder shells, there will not be enough room in the forcing cone to handle 2.75" smokeless, each modern smokeless shell is going to be akin to a proof load! It will handle them for a while, but somewhere down the line it's gonna rear up and bite ya, my advice would be, load it with 2.5 dram equivalent black powder loads in 2.5" shells, or failing that, get Wendy ta shoot the first 100 smokeless, regards Bully
 
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