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Remington 870 or 1100? Which one?
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<blockquote data-quote="CAR-AR-M16" data-source="post: 1631865" data-attributes="member: 204"><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmJPPuKS1k" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmJPPuKS1k</a></p><p></p><p>Sir, you keep mentioning the shell under the lifter being a design flaw. You are correct, but that flaw has been fixed for about 20 years. The Flex-Tab on the newer 870's solved this problem (you can buy the parts from Brownells to upgrade an older 870). Here is a video showing a shell under the lifter jam with the older model lifter (which he did actually clear twice anyway) and the same jam with a flex-tab lifter: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmJPPuKS1k" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmJPPuKS1k</a></p><p></p><p>As for the FTE with heavy loads, again, I have never witnessesed or heard of this issue. Could you please provide some links where this issue is discussed? I do know that most LE agencies use the reduced recoil 00 Buck loads for faster follow-up shots, so that has not been an issue. This load also makes for an excellent HD round and is what I shoot in my 870. I would not be shooting 3.5" Maximum loads in a HD scenario anyway.</p><p></p><p>Again, I am not saying that the 870 is the best thing out there, but it is not the worst either. ALL guns have some idiosyncrasies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CAR-AR-M16, post: 1631865, member: 204"] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmJPPuKS1k"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmJPPuKS1k[/URL] Sir, you keep mentioning the shell under the lifter being a design flaw. You are correct, but that flaw has been fixed for about 20 years. The Flex-Tab on the newer 870's solved this problem (you can buy the parts from Brownells to upgrade an older 870). Here is a video showing a shell under the lifter jam with the older model lifter (which he did actually clear twice anyway) and the same jam with a flex-tab lifter: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmJPPuKS1k"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmJPPuKS1k[/URL] As for the FTE with heavy loads, again, I have never witnessesed or heard of this issue. Could you please provide some links where this issue is discussed? I do know that most LE agencies use the reduced recoil 00 Buck loads for faster follow-up shots, so that has not been an issue. This load also makes for an excellent HD round and is what I shoot in my 870. I would not be shooting 3.5" Maximum loads in a HD scenario anyway. Again, I am not saying that the 870 is the best thing out there, but it is not the worst either. ALL guns have some idiosyncrasies. [/QUOTE]
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