Easiest shotgun to completely strip down to clean?

Easiest shotgun to completely strip down to

Been shooting the same 870 for over 44 years. My dad bought the 870AP in mid-1950, hunted with it for 9 years, then gave it to me in 1959 on my 10th birthday. In spite of getting old and senile, I can take my gun apart, or put it back to gether in 60 seconds, regardless of the conditions, or situation. While serving in Viet Nam 2 years as a combat photographer, I think I stripped, cleaned, and reassembled my issue 870 even faster. Of course that was over 37 years ago and I was a lot younger!

I can't imagine a shotgun that would be easier to take apart than a Remington 870. If there was one, I'd be afraid it would fall apart by itself when I shot it! But my question is: What's the hurry? I take my 870 apart once at the end of the season to clean the moving parts, receiver, and trigger assembly. I do clean the barrel and bolt face after a day in the field, and put a drop or two of oil on the rails. But when I'm cleaning the gun at the end of the season I want it clean and preserved. I'm not in a race to see if I can do it in a New-York-Minute.

I'm sure anyone, after shooting the same gun for as long as I have, whatever brand or model, would be famaliar enough with it to take it apart and put it back together without having to ponder each step. It's all just a matter of personal perrogative in what we shoot and field strip.

TennSquire

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my apologize on were brownings were made mr.greybeard.but don't insult my iinteligancein rregardsto brake down on guns now as i stated before i have owned browning, remingtons,and benellis now for someone that has not owned any of them i will promise you that a benelli would be far easier to figure out a benelli over a remington 870 much less a gas operated remington 1100 let me ask all of you how long does it take you to get the fire pin out of an 870 or an 1100 to clean the inside of the bolt were the fire pin is located because that after all would be a complete break down on an auto or a pump shotgun there is 1 small pin to hold in the fire pin on a benelli put your thumb over the fire pin and pull that pin in turn will release the ffiringpin not to mention the fact that there aren't two rails that the bolt has to sit on to put the bolt back in and with your finger try to push in the piece inside the rreceiverto release the rails to get it out none of this being rrelevantwith a benelli because they are made for easy break down and reassemble oh yea have you ever owned a benelli??? if so i cant understand how you could say that a remington is easier to brake down because it is just not true and for the sake of saying i am not ppartialto either gun i own a browning fusion and have owned both the benelli and the remingtons and have had the best luck with my fusion.So if your still in question on my comments i guess i can try to be more specific but i don't know how much more plainly i can put it :evil:

pump to auto

C130ae,
actually i thought we were comparing the easiest shotguns to clean pump or auto loader.Im not tryin to come off like a no it all in any way all im sayin is that i don't appreciate greybeard insulting my iintelligencei thought this was to be a ddiscusionforum if i am wrong on something and am ccorrectedlike brownings not bein made in the us thats fine but like i say i have had the rems.,browns,and the bene.. and all i was sayin is in comparing all of the guns the benelli is the easiest to brake down period! my oopinionstrictly! and for that matter greybeard has stated in other post that he ddoesn'town a benelli so how can he even make a valid comparison as to wich gun is easiest to breakdown of course he can break down his rems.. he has owned them for a long time so when you do something all the time you should be able to take it apart with ease but that was not the question it was he was looking for the most simple gun to break down fire pin included for ease of cleaning unlike ggreybeardi am not partial to any particular gun just saying the more parts you have to deal with on a gun the more time it takes to break it down thats just common sense. so unless you your a gunsmith or have owned the different shotguns and have actually broke all of them down i don't see were a person would have a legitimate reply as to wich shotgun is easiest to break down rather come on and own one kind of gun there whole life and say that i cant imagine any gun bein easier to break down then this one. well i got news for ya there is!

Easiest shotgun to completely strip down to

C130E,

Thanks for explaining how to do it. That's just how easy it is. I go ahead and push the right shell latch, slide the forearm assembly into the receiver a little more, then push the left shell latch since my fingers are already up in the receiver. Sitting in my easy chair in the living room, I can do it in just a few seconds.

The only part I've ever had to replace on my 54 year old 870 was the carrier dog follower spring. It got a little weak from the tens of thousands of shells I put through it, and sometimes the carrier wouldn't lift the next shell up all the way so it would feed into the chamber. I called Remington to order the spring. They told me it was 59 cents. I told them I'd send them a buck to cover the cost and a stamp. They told me they'd send it "no charge." I replaced the spring and the gun feeds like new again.

I've always thought of the 870 as the "chevy small block engine" of the shotgun world. Millions made, always works, and easy to fix. Just like the sign on the local bar-b-que stand, "Nuttin Mo Betta."

TennSquire