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Extremely early 50s model. Corncob fore end. YUP, one of these....still have it... was purchased in the PX some time shortly after the end of the Korean War...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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1978, 3" Magnum 30" barrel, fixed full choke. Got a 28" choke tube barrel about 15 years later.
Let's Go Brandon! FJB
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New for Christmas at age 12. $100 IIRC.
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One is the same age as me, the other was made in 79.
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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Campfire 'Bwana
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1978, 3" Magnum 30" barrel, fixed full choke. Got a 28" choke tube barrel about 15 years later. Not sure of the date of mfg, but that sure sounds similar to my Wingmaster. I got it from a friend with both barrels though. Maybe tomorrow I look up the SN and find out the date. Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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1958.
20 gauge that I won on a football board with the princely sum of.50 cents. The football game was LSU vs Hardin-Simmons. My numbers were 0 and 6, the final score was 20-6, LSU won and won the National championship that year. I was just a wee bairn at the time.
Has been shot so much that you can point it straight up, punch the slide release and the corn cob falls on its on to full open chamber. Doves, squirrels, ducks, geese, rabbits and several whitetails.
Very little bluing left on it but still shoots # 4s, 6s and 7 1/2s like it always did. 28” full choke with the B.B. front sight. Has been used as a boat paddle twice that I recall.
Grandson has it now, disassembled and tucked away in the original box that it came in. Inside the box with the gun I have the written history of it along with the original sports page from the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate telling about the football game.
The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
What we've learned from history is that we haven't learned from it.
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1978, 3" Magnum 30" barrel, fixed full choke. Got a 28" choke tube barrel about 15 years later. Not sure of the date of mfg, but that sure sounds similar to my Wingmaster. I got it from a friend with both barrels though. Maybe tomorrow I look up the SN and find out the date. Geno Remington date codes are on the barrel, month year.. https://www.rem870.com/gun-manufacture-date/remington-serial-number-lookup/
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Which one?
870 in 12 gauge I cut stock off so my wife could use........about 1990
870 I bought after cutting stock off of the one above......... 1995
870 20 gauge for rabbit hunting about 1990
870 20 gauge youth model 1997
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1960s , 70s 80s , 90s a 2004 model and hopefully if things work out this week another mid 60s model
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I bought my new in 1982, the first gun I ever bought with proceeds from my first job. I would have been in grade 10 at the time.
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20 gauge Youth model, 21 inch barrel, camo, bought it about 5 years ago because I wanted a 20 gauge pump to turkey hunt with. It's an Express model, and not very slick. Had two 12 gauge 870's over the years, and ended up trading them off. There's one of them I wish I had back.
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I bought an 870 Express Magnum last year that's been beat all to hell. Typical of a village gun. I'm rebuilding it which will include sand blasting and Duracoat and it will be my dedicated waterfowl gun.
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!976 for $127;00 vent ribbed skeet barrel, that gun has killed a pile of birds.
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When I started duck hunting in the Pac NW salt/brackish in 91 it was time to stop using my Grandfather's 4 digit serial number Auto-5 and I bought one of the first years of the coated/camo 870s. Great decision.
It's been a stalwart companion that often got broken down at the end of the day and dropped in the tub to clean the salt off then blow dried and oiled. Shot my first perfect rounds of skeet with it as well as a truckload of ducks and geese plus a couple off blacktails on Whidbey Island (no rifle area). While not elegant, it is as fine a simple, reliable firearm that has ever built.
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Bought mine in 1972 in Midland, Texas from a Walgreens Drug Store for $89. Used my paper route money. It had a plain barrle on it, which I replaced with a Rem Chocked vent ribbed barrel maybe 10 years ago.
She does not get much use anymore. I started shooting skeet, for which a pump is a real hinderance. But she is still my sweetheart.
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I have Wingmasters in 20 (LW magnum) and 12 (magnum), 80's and 90's respectively.
No offense to Winchester guys but I have had Model 12s, don't see the fascination.
Like my older Model 37s and I have a Model 31 Rem. in 20 ga.
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I bought my Remington Model 870 12ga in 1976. I sold a Model 37 featherweight 16ga to buy it. Worst decision ever. I was a practical young kid back then. I thought that 16ga was going away. The Ithaca was damaged by a fall on the ice and I decided to let it go. The Remington has been flawless but it lacked the quality of the Ithaca. Remington has more stamped parts. I'm starting to get used to the Remington at 44years.
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my oldest one is a 53 plain jane 12, a 73 20g LW, and a couple of later ones from 2000's, supermag and youth 20
My diploma is a DD214
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Campfire 'Bwana
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1984. Haven't used it in years, it's up at our place in PA...
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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