Do you think Remington should make a Wingmaster 18"?

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With the beautiful Wingmaster wood and a short barrel for tactical purposes? I personally think that'd be beautiful. Would it sell?
 
Remington did for a time make a blued 18.5" 870 Police. The metal was identical to the Wingmaster of the era while the wood was a matte finished version of the older Wingmaster stocks.

Remington also produced the Brushmaster which was a Wingmaster with a 20" rifled-sighted barrel that while designed for the deer hunting crowd was identical to the 20" 870 Police.
 
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I can see Remington making such a gun, but it should not be called Wingmaster!

If beauty sells, it should be called beastmaster:p;):cool:
 
badboybeeson said:
nothing tactical about high gloss wood and blueing.
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Tactical is a mind set - Not a finish choice. Although I personally would not choose nice bluing and pretty wood for "tactical" purposes, it would certainly work.

AND, it would be a whole lot more appropriate than the tacticool mall ninja with camoflague underpants, IMHO. Everybody hates a poser....

;)

Neal
 
Remington barrels interchanging the way they do, it would not be hard to come up with a polished blue 18" barrel.
Now, are polished blued rails, light and laser adapters, sidesaddles, etc. available?
 
18in tactical

I've "made" several over the years.

I have 4 different older blued Wingmasters that wear barrels ranging from 18in to 24in.
In all cases I have simply bought older Wingmasters and cut the barrels to suit my wants.

I don't ever shoot 3in anything anyway so the older receivers are fine with me. I have an 18in VR, a 24in VR, and a 18in plain barreled Wingmaster all wearing high gloss bluing and hardwood stocks.
They handle fantastic, have buttery smooth actions and were built at a time when there was quality workmanship/fit/finish.

The only issue I have with any of them is the lack of threaded chokes and or a decent fixed choke as they all are of course cylinder bore now.
It is quite pricey to have them threaded and they may not actually have enough material to do so.

Regardless I shoot the 24VRin gun sporting clays/skeet and the cylinder choke is no problem.....helps out actually..HeHeHe

The 20inVR I use for upland birdy's, I would love it to be mod choke but get away with the cylinder choke....end up with a few more pellets in the meat than I like though.

The 18in plain barrel is in police configuration with a hardwood police stock and gloss blue. It's a fun gun. I admit I don't handle it as roughly as I would if it were an express finish even though I have far less $$ into it than some of my other "tactical" shotguns.
 
nelly said:
Tactical is a mind set - Not a finish choice. Although I personally would not choose nice bluing and pretty wood for "tactical" purposes, it would certainly work.

AND, it would be a whole lot more appropriate than the tacticool mall ninja with camoflague underpants, IMHO. Everybody hates a poser....

;)

Neal
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Precisely!!! I guess all those dudes in the Old West who were shot with high-gloss blued SAA's and Merwin & Hulberts are less dead because they were shot with a shiny gun. Tom Threepersons used a gloss nickled SAA and kiled a truck full of bad guys - lucky for them he didn't have a black plastic blaster or they'd have REALLU been in trouble...;)
 
Uhhh, they do offer such a gun, it's called the 870 Police Magnum. You can still get it with wood stocks and blued metal, but it's becoming less popular.

FYI This is the exact same configuration that Remington originally started selling to police departments. They would take a bone stock Wingmaster and install an 18" or 20" barrel, with or without mag extension. I have just such a police trade-in in my possession.
 
Leg said:
Uhhh, they do offer such a gun, it's called the 870 Police Magnum. You can still get it with wood stocks and blued metal, but it's becoming less popular.

FYI This is the exact same configuration that Remington originally started selling to police departments. They would take a bone stock Wingmaster and install an 18" or 20" barrel, with or without mag extension. I have just such a police trade-in in my possession.
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Absolutely correct. We had them at work when I started in the early 80's. They slowly got rid of them and replaced them with the 870 Police Magnums. I preferred the Wingmasters. I like wood and they were smoother IMO.
 
I've been looking for one for a while.

They are not being shipped from the States anymore (I think) due to the term "Police Magnum" on the receiver. I bought an old wingmaster in great shape with police wood for cheap and now I am having an awful time finding a shorter, blued barrel. I could cut the existing barrel but it is just so nice I don't think I could bring myself to do it. If I could find another barrel I would have two guns in one and a 3" chamber would give me more payload options for the bush and zombies (just in case). 12.5" would be perfect and I would have something similar to a Grizzly but with a great finish, less weight and not too much more $$ (depending on the cost of the barrel).

Yes, bring back the 870 Police Magnum blued with wood.
 
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I just cut 2 30" blued barrels down to 18" this week and I have another one on the way. Every time I buy an older wingmaster it usually comes with a 30" full choke. I have no use for them so I chop them. They act as spares since I have factory 14" and 12 1/2 inch barrels. I now have wingmasters with an
18" a 14" and a 12 1/2". All 3 will be going to tac ord for parkerizing and teflon coating in the next few weeks. For about $100 more, I will take them over the grizzly any day. By the way, Epps says no problem fitting them for screw in chokes, he quoted me $100 less the choke tubes.
 
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