50$ 870

[hrc]

I just finished putting an 870 together from parts and in the end it only cost me $50 (not counting time or effort) actual dollars . Here is how I got there.

First I bought a fairly new 870 express missing barrel, bolt and trigger guard for $40 and a gun show last year. The stock was rough but the action hardly looked used.

On gunbroker I bought a bunch of parts for an 870 for $50, everything but the barrel and receiver. I installed the bolt and trigger group and sold the rest of the stuff back on gunbroker for $50. Not to shabby.

Then I bought two Mossberg 500 barrel for $5 each at Gander Mtn. I sold these on gunbroker, for a profit and used the proceeds to buy a new Remington 18" barrel.

I put all of this together yesterday and went out to shoot it. I loaded one shell took the safety off, then nothing. What? No bang? No mark on the primer. OH, man thats what you get sticking old junk together. But wait, I disassembled everything and looked at the bolt. I pressed in the firing pin and it took forever to pop back out. So I took some "Wads Out" solvent and poured it on the bolt and within a few minutes the pin was moving like it should. I put her back together, loaded her up, and she fired just like a new one.

Some times you get lucky, if your patient.

[djturnz]

Barrels for $5 at GM, how the hell'd ya do that?

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I just lucked out on the barrel I actually bought four, 2 mossberg, a remington 760 and a .50 cal traditions barrel all for $20. The were clearing out some of old used stuff, there was also a half of a five gallon bucket with magazines and choke tubes, but I didn't really look at them. This was at the Washington Gander some time early fall last year. I didn't have any of those guns but a deals a deal.