Tricks/Tips To Slick The 870 Action

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BigGreenMachine

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I have a new 870 Express "Tacticool" and I'd like to know what you guys do to make the action faster/smoother? (besides shoot it) :runaway:

80 rounds through it so far with 335 more to go by Saturday.
 
Sit down, put your ear protection on and rack the thing till the cows come home. I say put your ear protection on cause it gets loud :p

I took mine apart and sanded some rough spots down a bit, it is better but still stick when it the bolt gets just to the point where it would eject the shell.
 
You could try to polish the dual slide bars with a dremel and a felt pad. I just rack mine a lot at first. (When the wife is not home cause it would totally creep her out). The good news is that shotguns are like fine wines, in that they get better with age.
 
I noticed my slide bars already polishing themselves on the sides. I was mainly hitting the tops and bottoms of it, you will see a lot of roughness on them and that is where the slide lock rides on.
 
You might try a little bit of fine polishing compound put on the rough areas then cycle the action a few hundred times will help speed-up the smoothing process. Or you can just cycle it without the compound until it smooths out.
Cheers,
Grant
 
Wait till your wife goes shopping, make sure it is unloaded, watch the final battle scene from the Wild Bunch and cycle your action to match the shooting. By the time the credits roll, she'll be smooth as glass.
 
Yeah I've had it apart numerous times and noticed where the slides are polishing themselves already. Theres really nothing I know to do besides polish it all to a mirror but I don't have patience for that. I'll just shoot it and hope it gets as smooth as my fathers old old old Wingmaster.

BTW anyone have a magazine catch for a Wingmaster 870 2 3/4"?
 
LOL i shot trap with my express for a year when i first joined a local club, a years worth of regular trap shooting and inter club matches sure losened her up.
 
I handpolished and then ran graphite lube on mine while cycling countless times it and now it's ridiculously smooth.
 
I just use a little fine steel wool to polish up the action bars, then I slick them up with G96 CLP and let stand for a while before wiping off the excess. It'll rack fast after that.
 
My winchester 1300 has the smoothest actions out of my maverick, and norinco.

The maverick comes in second place as it isn't all that bad. The norinco 97 trenchgun is very rough, it needs a good break in as suggested above.
 
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