Good for you. Just plain good shotguns them older ones are.

John

 

the old ones are getting hard to find.

 

Forgot to give the price I got it for. I think I did well on this one. Here is my bill of sale.

 

Done good........

 

237! done !

 

Very nice wood in that butt stock.

 

Wow!!! I couldn't have walked away from that, especially under $250

 

I have my dad's old 870 that he had as far back as I can remember as a kid. I grew up hunting with it pretty much until he gave me a 1100 for Christmas when I was 16. It still shoots as good as it did 50 years ago. I think mine was made in the 1950's.

 

I have one just like it I bought back in 1981. Same shape. If it could talk it would tell of a lot of pheasant and quail stories for sure. Enjoy as I have mine for 37 years.

 

Nice and a great price.

 

That's a nice one at a nice price. I have one I bought back in 1966, I paid just around $100 for it new at local HWD Store. It hasn't been
fired 100 shells. I never could warm up to it being a Win 12 & Brn A5 guy. Only time it gets used is when relative shows up for deer season and doesn't have a gun. I don't know why I still have it except it been around so long and was the first new shotgun I bought. I
have only bought a dozen new shotguns in my life, I made up for it with rifles & pistols.

 

To the OP. that is a beauty !! What a sweet deal and a nice looking shot gun to boot.

 

Dang, and look at that wood! That's less than I paid for my first 870 (and first gun) in 2005.

Don't see a lot of 30" barrels either

 

I myself just recently picked up a minty vintage 870 like yours....ribbed barrel+$300

Also the next day...same place...grabbed a beautiful Lefever 16 ga double for $425

 

Old Remington’s hard to beet for a good field gun. Sure wish they made em like that theses days. But the days of good quality Remington’s like those are gone! Good call, I would have grabbed it as well.

 

I do think the hype about new Remingtons being POS's is a bit overblown. I have thousands of trouble free rounds through my 2 870s and they are 2005 and 2010 production models.

But no, they aren't as nice as the older ones

 

I'd have a very hard time walking away from one of those in 20 ga.

What gauge is yours?

 

Ahhh. Remington in the Golden Years. I'd love to get my hands on an old 870 in .410. What a wonderful heritage.

Now if they can just drag themselves out of the 'BROWN' years.

AC

 

I have never had a WingMaster 410, had a couple of the Expresses. I did have a couple 28g Wingmasters that were NIB, never shot one
before I traded them off. Just sold a nice 16g before Christmas. It was like new with the box but was bought in 60s. On the subject of new 870s compared to old that is apples & oranges, they don't compare. Remington had darn near the whole market with 870, 1100 & 700 series rifles. I guess they had to shave quality to match Mossberg. The 12g guns aren't bringing much in my area. The 20,28 and 410 bring a good dollar. The market has changed drastically. A nice Win M12 in 12g is only averaging $350 at auctions, Ithaca 37s about the same. The smaller bores bring more and so do Win 1897s. Who would have thunk?

 

NOW Y'ALL got me to think'in! My 870 12 gauge turns 53 this year! :frown: Seems like only yesterday I laid out $95.00 (+tax of course) for that pump gun. She's got the 30" full choke barrel as well and in spite of lots of use - she looks almost as good as your recent acquisition. She's wearing the slug barrel in the photo, but the 30" is still available. If she would talk, she'd tell you about piles of ducks, quail, and rabbits that she brought to bag.
Lots of good memories with that ole 870. Thanks for stirring them up!

 

That's a real beauty.

 

I have an old Wing Master 870 that was given to me when I was 16 back in 1951. Ser, # 3944XXX Nothing has ever been done to it other than cleaning & it still works. Just like a Timex. Sorry no pictures. Can anyone give me a Mfg. date??


I stand corrected, Bandit1250 e-mailed me the Mfg. date for my 870 & it was Feb. 1955, making the 870 64 years young.I guess at my age I am aloud to get a few things such as dates wrong.

Now, what else was I going to say?? Oh! yes, Thank You Johnny ( Bandit1250) for the info you sent me.

 

The Remington 870's is one of the few "Bullet Proof" guns Remington ever built. Supposedly there are a couple Rem 870's in the trapshooting hall of fame with close to one million rounds shot through them.

The factory pad on your new 870 indicates it is likely a 3-inch magnum.

 

Mine is not a 3" chambered model. V after the serial number indicates a 2 3/4" receiver. M after the serial number indicates a 3" magnum receiver.

 

Excellent pick up. Beauty right there. I have a '81 with 30" vent rib full choke, I traded an old Remington 22 for another one just like it that is a project gun. She is a little rough but I got it working. My '81 model I kept gun chaps on it and the wood is pristine.

 

I have a 2015 Wingmaster I use for Turkeys and waterfowl. It is flawless and every bit as good as an old one, I know I have handled hundreds of them. Actually if you swapped the stock you could not tell the difference.Anyway saw a new one a while back and it had a express plastic trigger guard on it at Dunhams, couldn't believe it. Guess I got mine just in time.- Locoman