limabean;
Good morning, I trust all is as it should be down in your part of Alabama.
Since you're familiar with the 870, you're aware of some of it's quirks such as the slide being firmly forward to load the mag tube.
Being at that I'm a Canuck, pump shotguns and lever guns are a couple of the things we'll see in the back country due to our idiotic restrictions on handguns.
There's a company in Ontario that makes Hi-Vis Delrin followers that go into all the "serious social bear repellant" that I work on.
https://sjhardware.com/product/powerfeed-no-jam-combat-shotgun-follower-type-3-hivis-green/The Delrin of course is self lubricating, the clean out grooves are a nice touch and with them it's easier to get a tactile feel if the mag tube is empty without actually looking at it - say for instance in the dark.
Another addition I like to add is the TruGLo Fat Bead Dual Color Fiber Optic bead which this semi-old guy's eye can pick up much faster in low light, but not in the dark of course.
Hope that was useful to you or someone out there.
All the best.
Dwayne
