What spare parts to get? 870 Police
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1) go to S&J hardware's site and order the delrin follower of your choice. Don't bother about the springs, in my experience the OEM Remington mag springs are fine.
2) Stop worrying about spare parts. Over 11 million 870's have been produced, you can't walk 3 blocks without tripping over 870 parts. They will never be hard to get. Save your money - it will probably never break. If it ever does break, it will be the ejector assembly, which requires gunsmithing to repair anyhow.
3) Someone will be along shortly to tell you to buy a new extractor, preferably a machined police extractor. Ignore them. You probably already have a police extractor, but if not, I've never seen a standard MIM extractor break from normal use anyhow.
2) Stop worrying about spare parts. Over 11 million 870's have been produced, you can't walk 3 blocks without tripping over 870 parts. They will never be hard to get. Save your money - it will probably never break. If it ever does break, it will be the ejector assembly, which requires gunsmithing to repair anyhow.
3) Someone will be along shortly to tell you to buy a new extractor, preferably a machined police extractor. Ignore them. You probably already have a police extractor, but if not, I've never seen a standard MIM extractor break from normal use anyhow.
Gravel Agency (sponsor) is the master distributor for Canada and way way cheaper than Brownells for any factory Remington part. They also have better stock.
You're welcome. They should look even better now that our money has turned to bunk.
I have a Wingmaster from (I think) the first couple of years of production - receiver in the 186###V range, it works perfectly, and is 100 percent original. 870's don't seem to break, or wear for that matter, maybe some springs if you intend to run crates of buck and slug through it.
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I was upgrading an el-cheapo express and wanted the machined extractor and the usual other bits.Checked all the big online retailers, nada. Even Remington didn't have any. Graval had 47 extractors in stock at a price that worked out with the exchange rate at the time to just under the best US dealer price I could find. But with no import or handling fees and only the actual cost of postage. Yay for Canada!
Never heard of anyone breaking a firing pin either, although it has probably happened. More likely to lose it if you pull it apart. I currently own nine wingmasters, all of them older, and all of them with original internals. The one thing that does occasionally break is the ejector spring. They can occasionally be replaced without changing the rivets if the originals aren't peened too bad, but more often you need the rivets too, which also means the gun needs re finishing. The good news if you are running an older wingmaster is that it would then have 3" capability.
Read his thread. His gun is a police model already.
I got one of Casey's Brinks guns a while back (looked like it had fallen off a truck and then got run over by another one. Some of those guns were beyond abused.) it had a damaged ejector spring, and I found out because it wouldn't eject. New spring and a refinish in the garage and it is good for another 100k rounds.
I'd get a firing pin and spring. My 870 from 1974 broke its firing pin and I had to replace it. Other than that, they're pretty bombproof.
If you really want to get extravagant:
-Extractor, spring and plunger
-Ejector, spring, and rivets
-Trigger plate assembly. In the event of a small part breakage here, you can just swap out the whole assembly for an immediate fix and order whatever parts are needed.
If you really want to get extravagant:
-Extractor, spring and plunger
-Ejector, spring, and rivets
-Trigger plate assembly. In the event of a small part breakage here, you can just swap out the whole assembly for an immediate fix and order whatever parts are needed.
