Gunsmithing

Lengthening a shotgun’s forcing cone

February 3, 2013 Bill Marr 0

Lengthening (Extending) a shotgun’s forcing cone The forcing cone is the tapered area just forward of the chamber that allows the shot an area in which to transition into the bore.  As the shot then […]

Shotguns

Choke tube installation

February 2, 2013 Bill Marr 0

Recently we decided to install “Rem-Choke” style removable choke tubes on two of our barrels.  In our “3-Gun Competition Shotgun Build” article, we installed the tubes manually, without a lathe. All lathe work is conducted […]

Gunsmithing

Vang Comp Systems Ghost Ring Sight Installation

August 7, 2012 Bill Marr 0

Remington recently sent us a Remington Express Synthetic Express shotgun, model 25549, with a bead sighted 18″ IC barrel.  While its a perfectly serviceable gun from the factory, we couldn’t wait to work on it and contacted Brownells to order a […]

Competition

Remington 870 3-Gun Competition Shotgun Conversion

July 29, 2012 Bill Marr 0

Remington 870 3-Gun Build Rifleshooter.com and Brownells make a Remington 870 competition ready The following documents our experiences and is presented for informational purposes only. In order to make the steps easier to understand, we separated the […]

Gunsmithing

Remington 870 Tactical Shotgun Build

July 6, 2011 Bill Marr 6

  Tactical Remington 870 Build UPDATE: To improve patterning, see our post on lengthening the forcing cone and back boring here UPDATE: Scattergun Technologies Trak-Lock II Sight Installation is here UPDATE: Vang Comp Systems ghost […]