My 870 story

Claven2 said:
In other words, unless you plan on doing this job a couple times (you should not need to), just bring it to a smith - cheaper than buying the tooling (870 Ejector spring rivet cutter and a REMINGTON 870 RIVET STAKING TOOL SET, Brownells has them).

I've done this job in the past. Not hard if you have the right tool and punches, BUT, the rivets will stand proud of the receiver when done and need to be filed flush. Normally doing an ejector replacement also requires the receiver to be refinished (re-blued) unless you don't care what it looks like. Then you can just slap some cold blue to it.

You will need a front and rear rivet (about $7 US each), the ejector (about $20 US) and the spring ($8 US). Then there is the labour...
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D'oh, my bad. I have confused "extractor" with "ejector". Sorry, carry on.
 
Hirsch_Creek said:
I honestly can not remember EL, chance is 50/50 I had both shells in a bag, grabbing at random. But you were saying the Winchesters tend to stick more often in the barrel? Maybe barrel polish is my best starting point here, I still have about 300 rounds of win universal target rounds I'd like to use with it....
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I have tried 3 cases of the winchester universal shells in the 12-14 years since I bought my 870 express because it was all I could buy each time and seeing as I bought them years apart I figured the problem would be corrected. Nope. To this day those shells will get stuck in the chamber consistently. The one and only shell that does this to my gun.


Sell, trade or be prepared to carry a cleaning rod. A nice straight sapling works great to force the shell out...
 
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