870 Remington Super Mag

[Max LaGrunta]

A friend has an 870 that I'm buying from him. It cycles through 2 3/4, 3 and 3 1/2 shells. I want to put a cantelever scope mount barrel on it but I can't seem to find any information that will tell me which barrel to buy. I was looking at the Remington barrel but they don't have this gun listed, the same with the hastings barrel...Any thoughts?

[SuperMagnum]

Any of those barrels will fit on the super magnum gun, in fact, any 870 barrel will fit. The only difference is the receiver stroke whether it is 2 3/4, magnum for up to 3" shells, and the super mag up to 3 1/2". The only reason they don't list a 3 1/2" barrel is because they don't make a slug barrel with that long of a chamber, but the 3" barrels will work on the super mag, just be sure not to shoot a 3 1/2" shell thru that particular barrel. Between the hastings and remington slug barrels, I would get the hastings as it usually is the most accurate but then again they all differ. Good luck.
SuperMag

[ddejong]

The Hastings is a good bet Max.

[bronko22000]

Max, supermagnum is right. Any 870 barrel will fit your super magnum as long as it is the same gauge. I just picked a smoothbore barrel up at the last gun show that will take 2 3/4 or 3" shells. Most everyone tells me that I don't want to shoot 3" slugs anyway. I believe the reason is that they shake your brains loose in you skull........!!
Just don't go and buy a 2 3/4" chambered barrel and fire 3" or 3 1/2" shells out of it. You may end up with a very short barrel and some serious injury.

[Max LaGrunta]

Thanks for the information! It all makes sense to me now. I just didn't want to purchace something and either hurt myself od need to return it.