Crazy_Farmer
Regular
- Location
- Running Traffic, BC
I've been planning on doing this for awhile now but finally found what I was looking for. My first gun I ever shot was my dads 870 express. Goose and duck hunting as a kid my brother and I learned with that gun. My dad still owns it and has used it every year since but he plans on shooting a browning sliver this season. But its his gun and I wouldnt dare to change it.
So anyways I bought a grizzly just to have. Impulse buy
and then after awhile I really wanted a wood stock. And I loved the simple lines on the express my dad has especially the forearm shape I love. So I found a 870 express around the same year as my dads. Bought it from cgn, it arrived this morning and I'm done doing the switch over. I just wanted to swap over the stocks and forearms instead of barrel swapping becuase I wanted to keep the 870 receiver for hunting not the grizzly one.
I hunt brant here in BC and used both a SxS and my auto out in the water but what I really wanted was a cheap pump that I plan on painting all flat grey like our punts(boats) and then have the grizzly how I wanted it to look.
It took a bit, I had to tap the grizzly nut in the receiver becuase the bolt from the 870 stock is longer and wouldnt fully thread it, ran a tap through it and it worked great. Next problem I ran into was the forearm. Both actions were like butter before sliding easily, well after swapping them to eachother the 870 still cycled fine but the grizzly was very rough and tight. So I made the forearm tool with a piece of metal and swapped them both out and put them back in and now both are back to how they were before.
It was my daily gunsmith work and it turned out great.
So anyways I bought a grizzly just to have. Impulse buy
and then after awhile I really wanted a wood stock. And I loved the simple lines on the express my dad has especially the forearm shape I love. So I found a 870 express around the same year as my dads. Bought it from cgn, it arrived this morning and I'm done doing the switch over. I just wanted to swap over the stocks and forearms instead of barrel swapping becuase I wanted to keep the 870 receiver for hunting not the grizzly one.
I hunt brant here in BC and used both a SxS and my auto out in the water but what I really wanted was a cheap pump that I plan on painting all flat grey like our punts(boats) and then have the grizzly how I wanted it to look.
It took a bit, I had to tap the grizzly nut in the receiver becuase the bolt from the 870 stock is longer and wouldnt fully thread it, ran a tap through it and it worked great. Next problem I ran into was the forearm. Both actions were like butter before sliding easily, well after swapping them to eachother the 870 still cycled fine but the grizzly was very rough and tight. So I made the forearm tool with a piece of metal and swapped them both out and put them back in and now both are back to how they were before.
It was my daily gunsmith work and it turned out great.
