high walled brass for new shotgun ?

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Yesterday I picked up a 870 Express and the sales guy suggested putting 4 boxes of high walled brass shells through it. He said that's what the manual recommends, but I did a search of the PDF version and the word brass isn't in the manual.

Can anyone confirm this suggestion?


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Often new express guns have troubles with ejecting the cheap target shells like federal and winchester. There heads expand but don't shrink back so nicely and can be a ##### to pump out. No need for high brass. I'd just use remington gun club shells you should never have a problem
 
My brand new 870 wouldn't eject hardly anything because the little plunger behind the extractor was seized into the bolt and the extractor was just flopping around on it's own.
 
That advice sounds completely unnecessary. Maybe for an auto-loader, but I've never heard of that for a pump. He's just trying to sell ammo.
 
The fella was probably getting at the idea that if you work the action, it will slick up. You don't needs big loads, like mentioned in an earlier post target loads will be OK. But you could also just work the action at home too. His way to just shoot it, will do the same thing.
 
Gun sales persons are like car sales person...very few of them know WTF they are talking about! What you were told is pure BS.

The one thing to know about the 870 Express is that many of them do not like the cheaper Winchester target/field loads. The problem is because of poor quality control from both the gun and the ammo manufacturer. The guns have a slightly oversized and rough chamber. The ammo has a plated steel base vs the brass base of the higher quality "AA" ammo. Upon firing both the steel and brass bases will expand the same amount to "fill" the chamber but often times the steel bases do not shrink back down sufficiently (especially when the ammo is over pressured, which seems to happen way too often with the Winchester "Universal" and "Super Target" 1 1/8oz loads) and get stuck in the chamber. Remington and Federal loads seem to be much more consistent in performance. Over pressure rounds from those brands are seldom encountered and therefore work better in most shotguns.
 
Ya I've seen 2 different 870's at my range that had to have the chambers polished because of rough machineing in the area of the chamber that the brass would normally occupy.
Seems there are just enough burrs and scratches from starting the chamber reamer to cause low brass/steel econno ammo to hang up.
I actually helped the one guy clear his jams and found that once the gun was disassembled the cases just came out with my fingers, but the scratches/burrs were causing it to get snagged once the shell had fire formed around them and the action was used to eject.

In both cases a little polishing of the area reminded the situation.....or you could iron the rough spots out with a few hi brass hi impact 3+ dram loads.

I used elbow grease, 400 grit sand paper, a shot of graphite spray and never had any issues.
The other two guns belonged to people less confident in their own skills so payed a mere $20 to a local smith to do the work which was a 1 day turn around and probably only a few minutes actual labour.
Sadly a Reminton warranty is in the neighborhood of 3-6 month turnaround, which is why I elected to void my useless warranty by doing my own work.
 
My brand new 870 wouldn't eject hardly anything because the little plunger behind the extractor was seized into the bolt and the extractor was just flopping around on it's own.

Sounds like a bit of sand-blasting media left over from the Remington factory finishing job.
Blast it clear with some spray solvent or compressed air and lube.
Work the extractor/plunger back and forth and the offending debris should come clear,depending on how much sand is in there.
 
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