New 870 Would Not Eject Two Shells

[jrannison]

This is my first experience with my own shotgun, but I have shot others a few times at the firing range.

This is a standard 12 gauge Remington 870 Express for HD. I had read in some forums that sometimes these new 870 Express were coming from the factory with metal fragments in the Action, so I did disassemble the unit and it was immaculate, put some oil on the action bars and reassembled it.

The shells are Winchester “Super X”, 2-3/4” #71/2 and #8. I fired off about 25 rounds, but two in random sequence would not immediately eject. I was able to get some movement from the Fore-end and by moving it forward and back about 1/4-1/2", the shells finally ejected. It seemed like the shell was jammed in the chamber.

Anyone have any ideas as to what is going on and what to look for if/when it happens again?

Thanks

[BigDogatPlay]

Most likely not a big thing. Continue to break the gun in... 500 rounds is a nice break in, and consider lightly polishing the chamber with some fine steel wool. There are a ton of threads on this board, and many others, about this issue.

Go here and click on the Install and Cleaning link.

[newglockster]

^^^ that. Also, the cheap Winchester shells are about the worst you can buy. Federal or Remington have done much better for me. YMMV

[edwardm]

^^^ that. Also, the cheap Winchester shells are about the worst you can buy. Federal or Remington have done much better for me. YMMV

I will second that. All my 870's and those of family members seem to have odd issues with Winchester shells. Never so much as a hiccup with Federal or Remington.

[jrannison]

Thanks everyone.
I suspected one of the issues was the Winchester shells. I'll blow off the remainder, go to another brand and do some polishing.

[EXTREMEOPS1]

Federal are the choice of shotshells on my 870

Winchester are the worst for cycling on the 870 try Federal available at your local Wallyworld at cheap prices I paid around $56 for 300 rounds of Federal

[MXRider]

My 500 cycles everything I put in it.

[BigDogatPlay]

For the sake of the discussion... there seems to be a difference in quality between Winchester Super X (which the OP said he was shooting) and the crappy Winchester Universal bulk ammo typically found at Wal-Mart.

I'd wager that if he'd been shooting Universal his gun would've hagged 23 times out of 25 instead of just two.

[TheExpertish]

With the weekly "My New 870" issues, I think we should do a writeup and make it a sticky. I vote for aippi to do the write-up.

[mdhpper]

My 500 cycles everything I put in it.

So does my 870.

[aippi]

So does all six of my 870's and the several thousand others I have built for people.

[Fadedline]

There's probably more than a few that cycle everything out of over 10 million made Including mine.

[MXRider]

Lighten up, it was a joke.

[rsrocket1]

I also thought it was mostly an 870 problem, but I've also had problems with a batch of Winchester Super-X from Sports Authority that jam up in my ancient Remington 1100 which had worked perfectly with the bargain basement Remington and Estate shells.

It does look like a case of poorly sized bases which are just slightly too big.

No problem on the trap range, but I guess I'll only be shooting singles on the skeet range with this batch unless I get a resizing press.

[jeffrice6]

There was an article floating around that the newer 870's (Express) had rough chambers. And many folks have had to send them off to Remengtion's repair facility for correction.