870 Ejection Problem

[BroncoBob]

Ok, so a friend of mine his son bought a Remington 870 and was telling me of his problem to eject shells after shooting. So a couple of weekends ago I got a chance to observ this issue and sure enough every once in a while you have a hard time ejecting spent shells. Now fast forwarded to this last weekend. I take my 1 year old Remington 870 that I have never shot out to Panoche Hills and damn! I have the same problem. Does anyone know just what the problem can be? Both our shotguns have 18" barrels and 6 shot tube magazines.

[Go Packers!]

I had the same problem with my 12 ga. 870 Express that I bought from Big 5 about 2.5 years ago. I sent it back to Remington, they polished the bore and returned it to me. I still had problems. Remington shipped me a new barrel. Still had problems. Sent it back to Remington again. They returned it to me. I haven't had problems with it since then, but I don't shoot it very often. Needless to say, I am not very confident when it comes to the reliability of my firearm. Not a good characteristic of a home defense firearm.

My advice, contact Remington.

My next shotgun will be a Benelli.

[MAX100]

Save time a money and tell your friend to polish the chamber himself. It's easy to do. He might have to open it up a few thousands because some are a little under size. Remington knows about this problem because it's common. They choose not to fix the problem because it saves them on tooling cost but it cost the customer time and money. Great way to do business.


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[1BigPea]

From my personal experience with both of my 870's difficult ejection would happen infrequently until I had about 100 rounds through it. I'm not a break in type of believer but it stopped happening.

Hasn't happened since and its been a few years...

Aippi will have some solid input on this for sure...

[Creampuff]

OK is this a Remington issue, or are the shells being produced out there cheaper in quality, and expanding too much??

I posted three links below, that I remember, and I think there were one or two other ones out there as well.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=251404

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=253600

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=240313

[Henry Hill]

So you are supposed to polish the part of the BARREL, correct? not inside the receiver? Am I getting this right? Just by 'chamber' i'm not sure what part you guys mean, I'm assuming its the front part of the barrel though

[FastFinger]

So you are supposed to polish the part of the BARREL, correct? not inside the receiver? Am I getting this right? Just by 'chamber' i'm not sure what part you guys mean, I'm assuming its the front part of the barrel though

Not a shotgun, but it shows a barrel chamber...

[Nachoman]

So you are supposed to polish the part of the BARREL, correct? not inside the receiver? Am I getting this right? Just by 'chamber' i'm not sure what part you guys mean, I'm assuming its the front part of the barrel though

Yup, take off the barrel and stick your finger in the front of it (opposite the dangerous end). You'll feel a larger hole, then a step, then a smaller diameter hole. You polish the larger diameter hole.

[jre]

I have an 870 that didn't cycle well and I was told to loosen the gas tube nut, 3 clicks. Dont think that is what its called(gas tube nut) but worked fine after that.

[1BigPea]

I have an 870 that didn't cycle well and I was told to loosen the gas tube nut, 3 clicks. Dont think that is what its called(gas tube nut) but worked fine after that.

There is no Gas Tube on an 870...It's a pump action shotgun.

[rugit]

it only happens to my 870 when i used cheep Winchester bulk 100 packs from Walmart. The bulk federal has been flawless though. It never hurts to polish the chamber though if you know what you are doing.

[Go Packers!]

My problems with ejection occurred with Federal, Estate, and Remington. They were birdshot, target loads, and 00 buckshot, mostly in 2.75" but some 3" loads.

[aippi]

Much of this is ammo and the lack of racking the weapon like you have a pair. I don't have these issues and 30 to 40 new 870's a month.

You should build a polishing rig by taking a 3/8" to 7/16" wooden dowl and wrapping a pad of 000 steel wool over the end. Tape the base of the steel wool on so it looks like a large Q-tip. Put this in your drill and polish the chamber ever time you clean the weapon. Make another will about 3/4 of a pad of the same steel wool and use this to polish the barrel.

If you need to see what this tool looks like, go to www.aiptactical.com and under the customer service link find the How to video "Tube Extension Kit" Watch the vido and you will see the polishing tool you can make.

[MAX100]

I don't agree that it's the ammo. The Hawk 982, Pardner Protector, Mossberg 590, Benelli Nova and many other pump shotguns don't have problems with shells sticking the chamber.

Do a Google search on the 870 and FTF problems.


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[okimreloaded]

I just got an 870 and took it shooting for the first time, it's my first shotgun and you gotta rack it like a man, the guy at the trap field told me that it didn't like winchester ammo and that he sees jams from it from time to time. You can beat em up, it won't hurt them. The other thing is, on closer inspection of the shell I noticed that the extractor was tearing through the cheap metal rim on the bulk winchester ammo.

I think the mossberg 500 has two extractors and that it probably would handle cheap ammo better. I'm going to try some federal.