Remington 870 Marine Magnum Question

[deadly18]

I tried researching this and could not come up with much. What is the Remington 870 Marine Magnum good for? Could it use slugs? and finally how many yards can it travel?

Thanks in advance
-James

[BUCKMARK]

1. Everything a standard 870 is good for.

2. Yes, it can use slugs.

3. Good groups can be shot out to 100 yards if you do your part. Decent groups can be shot past 100 yards depending on what ammo is used and skill level of the shooter.

[NineseveN]

I tried researching this and could not come up with much. What is the Remington 870 Marine Magnum good for? Could it use slugs? and finally how many yards can it travel?

Thanks in advance
-James

It's the same as any other 870 pump with a 18-20" smoothbore barrel and an improved cylinder choke profile. Rifled slugs will work to about 100 yards, but only if you actually do your part, which isn't as easy as shooting that distance with a rifle. Sabot slugs are useless. A slug can travel a long way, much longer than 100 yards provided it doesn't hit anything of course, but accuracy starts falling off rapidly after about 100 yards or so.

Buckshot will work pretty well out to about 25 to 30 yards, but not as well as it would if you have the forcing cone lengthened and the barrel backbored or if you had it threaded for chokes and used a Modified choke (or had the Vang-Comp System done to it).

Each factory shotgun is a bit different however, so performance between one Marine Magnum and another might yield different results. All low-priced shotguns are rough from the factory, they don't build them to be accurate and throw tight patterns at distance, they build them to throw wide patters at very shot distances because that's what the American public thinks it needs (which is not necessarily true).

For use in your home only as a defense gun, a stock barrel on an 870 is fine though, unless you have open distances of 20 yards or more inside your house (which is doubtful).

The only thing that makes the Marine Magnum different is the finish; it has very good corrosion protection (designed for use on boats, hence the name, "Marine Magnum", as in marine = water, not the military branch).