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Dave McC · August 1, 2000, 07:05 PM

Understood about the distance, Gary, but it wasn't the best for testing.

My bird 870 has a rather short list of mods and addons,forcing cone, sling swivels, and a bit of shimming to put most of the pattern a skosh high. Bet I could pull out the mag plug, and shoot my old qualification course with it better than 90%.And while I'm good, I could name a dozen better w/o taxing my aging memory.

My HD 870 served as a test bed for a lot of gizmos starting about 81 or so. It still has most of the good stuff on it.

You're right about the stock sights. Two of my 870s have the peep sight setup because I might use slugs, and I DO hunt with one of them. I used to hunt with the HD 870.

As for tritium, if you like them, no problem here. I use a little paint to touch up the bead,and there's a hood on that front sight, which serves as a coarse, fast close range sight at low light levels. Whatever works for you...

August 1, 2000, 07:05 PM	#15
Dave McC Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 13, 1999 Location: Columbia, Md, USA Posts: 8,811	Understood about the distance, Gary, but it wasn't the best for testing. My bird 870 has a rather short list of mods and addons,forcing cone, sling swivels, and a bit of shimming to put most of the pattern a skosh high. Bet I could pull out the mag plug, and shoot my old qualification course with it better than 90%.And while I'm good, I could name a dozen better w/o taxing my aging memory. My HD 870 served as a test bed for a lot of gizmos starting about 81 or so. It still has most of the good stuff on it. You're right about the stock sights. Two of my 870s have the peep sight setup because I might use slugs, and I DO hunt with one of them. I used to hunt with the HD 870. As for tritium, if you like them, no problem here. I use a little paint to touch up the bead,and there's a hood on that front sight, which serves as a coarse, fast close range sight at low light levels. Whatever works for you...