Remington express tactical jamming problem.

[D3vin]

Hi.

Recently acquired a remington express tactical from CGN user. It ejects fine but jams frequently after a fire. I have to wiggle the pump around or smack the butt to loosen it.
Reading into it, its a common problem with these guns. Just to confirm, I just need to dremel off this remington quality machining job?
thanks for the help.

 

[Claven2]

That does not look out of the ordinary.

How is it jamming? Is it failing to eject, failing to feed, or are the empty hulls sticking in the chamber?

If the latter, you need to polish the CHAMBER - not the barrel extension. The barrel extension should not affect anything.

Finally, have you tried more than one type of shell/ammo? For example, some people have bad luck with cheap Winchester zinc-based shells.

 

[tazik]

Yes you can do the dremel job, will this resolve the problem ? Maybe,,,, you can also polish the chamber, look on youtube with the bulldog 000 with a power drill.

 

[D3vin]

That does not look out of the ordinary.

How is it jamming? Is it failing to eject, failing to feed, or are the empty hulls sticking in the chamber?

If the latter, you need to polish the CHAMBER - not the barrel extension. The barrel extension should not affect anything.

Finally, have you tried more than one type of shell/ammo? For example, some people have bad luck with cheap Winchester zinc-based shells.

The empty shells are getting stuck in the chamber. I have to wiggle the pump around to dislodge it.
As far as ammo, I was using generic low brass winchester ammo. bad ammo or not, the fail rate with this bunch is high.

 

[WRH]

The empty shells are getting stuck in the chamber. I have to wiggle the pump around to dislodge it.
As far as ammo, I was using generic low brass winchester ammo. bad ammo or not, the fail rate with this bunch is high.

Polish the chamber. Check out the instructions on Rem870.com.

 

[Claven2]

Was it low-brass Winchester ammo, or was the ammo base a slivery colour? If silvery, that ammo is just crap. Like really really awful.

Before doing anything, try virtually ANY other ammo.

Also, as mentioned above, polish the CHAMBER - not the machining marks on the barrel extension. That would not factor into sticking shells at all.

 

[Greenhorse six]

Like Claven2 said , most likely ammo issue , rule that out first and go from there , that cheap low base Winchester does that to my mossy 590 all the time .

 

[D3vin]

Noted. I polished the chamber via drill copper brush/fine steel wool. Will shoot the $hit ammo and different ammo to see if there is improvements.

 

[D3vin]

..One more thing. Is this normal having a slight gap where the magazine cap is? It wont tighten any further than this.

 

[Claven2]

No, that does not look right. Is there a burr or something inside the mag tube preventing it from seating?

 

[D3vin]

Not sure? the threads look clean and the barrel was properly fitted on. Not sure what the problem is.

 

[D3vin]

EDIT: fixed the problem.

 

[Stevo]

....anyone?

If the barrel and nut are tight, don't worry about it.

 

[Greenhorse six]

I'm not that familiar with the 870 setup , is there a ball detent on the barrel ring ?
That could be the reason for the very small gap there.

 

[Unagi604]

I think the gap means that the magazine tube extension is screwed too far down into the barrel nut. If you loosen the extension from the barrel nut by a turn or two, it should let you tighten the barrel nut further down.

 

[D3vin]

Yeah fixed that gap. Better yet polishing the chamber worked wonders. 50 rounds of crap ammo problem free.

 

[enefgee]

Barrel polishing is a key aspect for reliability - in the old days, Remington barrels were absolutely mirror bright, nearly perfect, now, not so much.

 

[GD7]

The Winchester bulk ammo uses some sort of silvery crap alloy to make their shell heads, which (in addition to being soft) are much shorter in length than proper brass head shells. As a result, the Winchester shell expands to a greater degree, and jams in the chamber. This is compounded by the fact that (as mentioned) Remington no longer properly polishes the chamber of the 870. It's apparently up to you to polish it, if you want to run cheap ammo.

edit: I see you got it fixed D3vin, congrats. It's unfortunate that Remington couldn't just finish them properly before shipping them.

 

[WRH]

This is compounded by the fact that (as mentioned) Remington no longer properly polishes the chamber of the 870. It's apparently up to you to polish it, if you want to run cheap ammo.

I blame labour costs and the uninformed consumer. People want cheap guns. Adding in another step adds expense. That expense gets passed on to the consumer and we as consumers do not want that. Instead we complain about the quality of the cheap goods we purchase.

 

[Unagi604]

I blame labour costs and the uninformed consumer. People want cheap guns. Adding in another step adds expense. That expense gets passed on to the consumer and we as consumers do not want that. Instead we complain about the quality of the cheap goods we purchase.

Does it take long to polish a chamber to the point where it starts ejecting properly? I didn't need to do one since mine isn't an express, but it seems like it wouldn't take that long. The way I perceive it, the complaint would be more what I assume the cost to Remington is, vs the benefit end users would get. I can't imagine it would cost more than $1 per if someone was being paid to just hold each barrel over a spinning polishing bit for a few seconds.