Remington 870 Express (What happend to Remington?)
Yesterday, I went out to the skeet range with my daughter, herboyfriend, and another friend of theirs. I brought my skeet thrower and my Remington 870 Express 12GA which in perfect condition and doesn't have any problems - mine is a few years old and nicely broken in.
Anyway this friend of theirs brought a totally brand new (right out of the box) Remington 870 Express 12GA, which he bought just after Thanksgiving- and has never shot it before.
I ended upshowing the young guy a few things about 870's, showed him mine (mine iswood, his is synthetic), and whatnot.
When we were blasting clays out of the air, he kept having problems over and over and over. His brand new 870 Express was jamming (failing to eject), not once, butalmost every single time he went to eject the spent shell. I went over to help him and saw how the spent shell was stuck in the barrel and the slide was real real hard to move. You had to slam the butt stock on your boot or on the ground to get the spent shell to eject.
Then I asked him if I could really check it out, and opened up the slide, reached in with my finger and could feel roughness all over inside the throat of the barrel. It wasn't exactly smooth, polished, and clean.
Anyway, I told him he either needs to take it back where he bought it, or, if he has good skills, he could clean up the throat of the barrel with gun oil and 0000 steel wool, or take it to a gunsmith.
WHAT HAS HAPPEND TO REMINGTON'S QUALITY CONTROL?!?!? [:'(]
My 870 Express 12GA doesn't have a problem in the world. It never jams and functions perfectly fine with any type of ammo I feed it.
Anyone else heard of issues with the brand new Remington 870 Express 12GA ????