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The do-everything shotgun, per John Satterwhite: Start with an 870, preferably with vented rib.
Convert the action to operate like a Model 12. Install an extended mag, and cut the barrel back to just a bit longer than the mag tube. Install screw-in chokes. Install a 1/2-size front bead. Toward the rear of the barrel, get a dove-tail cut and install a Williams folding rifle sight.
With a plug in the mag tube for the three-shot limit on migratory birds, the "feel" and swing is like a 26" or 28" gun.
With the folding sight up, and the cylinder choke tube installed, it's a slug gun.
Some on this forum don't like the idea of the Model 12 part of the conversion (As long as you hold the trigger back and play slide-trombone, the gun will fire each time it locks into battery.) And, not everybody does exhibitions as does Satterwhite, throwing seven claybirds into the air and "pumping" all of them before they hit the ground. Since I have used a Model 12 for some 27 years, I'm happy with its operation.
FWIW, Art
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