Remington 870 with compensator

garysclark

October 11, 2010 16:54

Guys,
My son has just taken me to look at a model 870 #16ss80v...interesting gun...has what I believe to be a cutts compensator, and a lyman choke. I neglected to look at mfg information, but stumbled on the "Remington Model 11" post here and the picture sure looks right. Problem I've got, is I have no idea how this set-up will preform or any idea if I should encourage him to purchase this set-up. Gun is pretty clean, no rust, barrell good and a few dings in the wood. Any advice/information would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Gary & Jack

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  charliemeyer007

  October 11, 2010 17:11

  They work but to me they are old school and ugly. The new internal screw in chokes are my first choice. E-bay gunparts often has full sets though I not sure of prices. If you can get it a good price I wouldn't let it bother me. 870 barrels are everywhere. What do you want it to do? Hunt, Trap or house defence?

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  garysclark

  October 11, 2010 17:22

  13 yr old first shotgun (deadly for dear with .243, just got a spike saturday 150yd dead where he stood) gonna try dove, quail, maybe if we can get back up north, some partridge and phesant. it's a 2-3/4 only, so not going to do ducks. He likes the look!(I think it's a "this gun has charecter" thing. It's an older gun and comes up nice...better feel than the new ones we have looked at....speaking of which, this one is $169.00.....basically $100.00 off the price of a new one.
  
  Any idea when this thing was made? I'm guessing 1950-70, but that's based on apperance (not a good basis).
  
  Might add here, the barrell is stamped Mod. and there is anothere stamp that looks like.....AYYT or AYY+.
  
  Thanks....hoping for a little more....;
  
  Gary & Jack

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  wpage

  October 11, 2010 17:40

  Sounds good price wise. The mod stamp indicates modified barrel choke which is a decent mid range set. Hard to be precise without a picture...

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