17 Shocking Facts About the Remington 870 Most Owners Don't Know

17 Shocking Facts About the Remington 870 Most Owners Don't Know THE BENCH BOOK + 2 TOOLS → https://dylanbenett.com A man named Ambrose Cattermole-Idowu brought a shotgun to my counter in April that two gunsmiths had already refused to work on, and neither one of them would tell him why. He is fifty-four. It was his uncle's Remington eight seventy, a Wingmaster, the gun he had watched his uncle carry into the duck marsh every November when he was a boy. His uncle died last winter and left it to him, and all Ambrose wanted was to have it cleaned and looked over so he could take it out this season. The first shop looked at the barrel, handed it back and said they would not touch it. The second shop said the same thing, and suggested, politely, that he find himself a different shotgun. He thought they were telling him it was junk. Then he started to wonder if they were telling him it was stolen. He told me he had lost sleep over it. I asked him one question, which was whether anybody had shown him the small mark stamped in front of the letters on the side of the barrel. Nobody had. That mark is the reason both of those shops handed the gun back, and I want to be clear, they were right to hand it back. They just did not explain it. And a man who has been handed his dead uncle's shotgun back twice with no explanation deserves one.