Have Remington 887s improved?

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My boss is planning to buy a new shotgun. He mostly hunts sal####er marshes or out on the bay with me, so I was recommending he look at a Benelli Supernova, due to their plastic coating that will keep a lot of rust away.

HOWEVER

I know Remington's 887 has a similar coating. I know three guys who have them, with no problems, but none of them shoot them enough to find issues quickly. The only other fellow I know who bought one made the mistake of buying one of the original run, and it was junk junk junk.

I heard the later ones were better. Is that true? Or are they all junk, not just the old ones?
 
I don't have any actual experience with the 887's but I know that when it comes to Remington, they never seem to get better when they are newer.
My 870 is a "new" production 870 and while it has never failed me and always goes bang the fit and finish leaves a lot to be desired and it needed a little chamber polishing to properly eject low brass shells.
As a contrast, I have held and shot lots of "older" 870's, both wingmaster and standard guns. If they are older than even the standard 870 is leaps and bounds above the newer stuff and a true wingmaster feels like it was built by the lord of shotgunning himself.
I don't know that the 887 follows the same trend, but it wouldn't surprise me.
 
Any of there entry level guns are at best mediocre there price point is to compete with all the other mediocre guns put there as far as the 870 wingmaster it as good as any other wingmaster shotgun starting way back to
The first yr 1951. Not sure shy people buy this Low end stuff but u get what u pay for .
 
Thing is, the 887 is not really their lower-priced gun. I think it's more than their 870 Express, and more than some of the other basic pumps I see locally.

Anyway, I am going to recommend he buy a Supernova or Nova or 870 I think. Thing is, around here, most shotguns rust super quickly unless you know a bit about taking care of them - blueing and walnut don't last long. It's fine for blinds, but when you are laying on your back on a coastal ledge in a pool of salt water waiting for eiders to fly overhead, or when you have the gun sitting in the front of the skiff while you power through the surf, it's gonna get wet and crusty. I have seen guns rust over the course of a morning's hunt for sea ducks. That's why all mine are painted, now. Handles the salt better.
 
Had one, know a couple buddies had them too. None of us own them any more. These ones were total JUNK, plastic loose all over, failure to feed shells, failure to eject shells, and the dam thing still rusted, you just couldn't see it under all the crappy plastic.

Get the Benelli, or an older wingmaster, or a decent proven 870 express.
 
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