Found a use for the Remington PC keys...

Guyon · July 11, 2001, 11:43 PM

This may have been mentioned before, but the key is the perfect tool for depressing the detent spring when you're REPLACING the politically correct keyed safety. Just dropped in a couple of old style safeties, and while getting that little spring down under the pin was tedious, the Remington key was just the right tool.

Thanks Remington!!! (dripping sarcasm)

Dave McC · July 12, 2001, 05:34 AM

Thanks, Guyon, just remember that every silver lining has its cloud....

Guyon · July 12, 2001, 11:51 PM

Well Dave, there is a bit of silver lining in the fact that I was forced to closely examine how the trigger assembly operates on the 870. It never hurts to know exactly how your gun works.

uglygun · July 13, 2001, 02:38 AM

The thing I love is how it's just so gosh darned simple to take out that piece of junk PC safety and install a proper safety in it's place.

I spent more time trying to drive out the trigger group pins of my buddy's Marine Magnum 870 than I actually spent replacing the safety, took about 2 minutes to drop the trigger group due to the rather tight pins in the receiver but the actual switch of the safety took me no more than a minute.

Dave McC · July 13, 2001, 07:47 AM

Guyon, the cloud I was obliquely referring to was the thrice cursed PC safety. No PC safety, no tool to correct same.

Agreed on knowing how your gun works!

Remington messed this one up big time. For a few cents, they could have just used the old safety and dropped the new PC mess in the box for those poor,deluded and ignorant fools that want them.

Coronach · July 13, 2001, 10:05 PM

Don't forget to hold onto those PC safeties until you have access to a postage-paid envelope from some anti group. Use their dime to mail their trash back to them.

Mike

MiniZ · July 13, 2001, 10:23 PM

Good tip!!
My "Walmart Special 1100" is getting the new(old) saftey ASAP. Still torn on getting a "jumbo" safety, or going with the standard.

Zane

Guyon · July 13, 2001, 11:00 PM

Does the 1100 use the same safety as the 870?

kerth · July 16, 2001, 09:10 AM

870, 1100, 11-87, 7600 and 7400 all use same "PC safety". Don't know if any of Remington's .22 use it or not.

Dave McC · July 16, 2001, 09:41 AM

Zane, here's my opinion on Jumbo safeties....

The bigger they are, the easier to get knocked on or off at an inopportune time. Since 10 minutes of practice is all it takes to familiarize with the standard safety, why switch?....

Guyon · July 16, 2001, 11:03 AM

Thanks kerth. I just ordered a couple more of the standard safeties--one for the 1100 and one for... well, who knows? Maybe an 11-87 waaay down the road.

July 11, 2001, 11:43 PM	#1
Guyon Senior Member Join Date: July 27, 2000 Location: Over the Hills and Through the Woods, Tennessee Posts: 1,207	Found a use for the Remington PC keys... This may have been mentioned before, but the key is the perfect tool for depressing the detent spring when you're REPLACING the politically correct keyed safety. Just dropped in a couple of old style safeties, and while getting that little spring down under the pin was tedious, the Remington key was just the right tool. Thanks Remington!!! (dripping sarcasm) __________________ Gun control should just be about hitting your target.

July 12, 2001, 11:51 PM	#3
Guyon Senior Member Join Date: July 27, 2000 Location: Over the Hills and Through the Woods, Tennessee Posts: 1,207	Well Dave, there is a bit of silver lining in the fact that I was forced to closely examine how the trigger assembly operates on the 870. It never hurts to know exactly how your gun works. __________________ Gun control should just be about hitting your target.

July 13, 2001, 10:05 PM	#6
Coronach Senior Member Join Date: March 25, 1999 Posts: 3,147	Don't forget to hold onto those PC safeties until you have access to a postage-paid envelope from some anti group. Use their dime to mail their trash back to them. Mike __________________ The axe bites into the door, ripping a hole in one panel. The maniac puts his face into the hole, cackling gleefully, "Here's Johnny...erk." "And here's Smith and Wesson," murmurs Coronach, Mozambiquing six rounds of .357 into the critter at a range of three feet. -Lawdog "True pacifism is the finest form of manliness. But if a man comes up to you and cuts your hand off, you don't just offer him the other one. Not if you want to go on playing the piano, you don't." -Sam Peckinpah "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein

July 13, 2001, 10:23 PM	#7
MiniZ Senior Member Join Date: February 1, 2001 Location: SLC, UT Posts: 517	Good tip!! My "Walmart Special 1100" is getting the new(old) saftey ASAP. Still torn on getting a "jumbo" safety, or going with the standard. Zane __________________ Seven- Six- Two Millimeter....FULL METAL JACKET!!!

July 13, 2001, 11:00 PM	#8
Guyon Senior Member Join Date: July 27, 2000 Location: Over the Hills and Through the Woods, Tennessee Posts: 1,207	Does the 1100 use the same safety as the 870? __________________ Gun control should just be about hitting your target.

July 12, 2001, 05:34 AM	#2
Dave McC Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 13, 1999 Location: Columbia, Md, USA Posts: 8,811	Thanks, Guyon, just remember that every silver lining has its cloud....

July 13, 2001, 02:38 AM	#4
uglygun Senior Member Join Date: March 27, 2001 Location: Cowpie Ca Posts: 552	The thing I love is how it's just so gosh darned simple to take out that piece of junk PC safety and install a proper safety in it's place. I spent more time trying to drive out the trigger group pins of my buddy's Marine Magnum 870 than I actually spent replacing the safety, took about 2 minutes to drop the trigger group due to the rather tight pins in the receiver but the actual switch of the safety took me no more than a minute.

July 13, 2001, 07:47 AM	#5
Dave McC Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 13, 1999 Location: Columbia, Md, USA Posts: 8,811	Guyon, the cloud I was obliquely referring to was the thrice cursed PC safety. No PC safety, no tool to correct same. Agreed on knowing how your gun works! Remington messed this one up big time. For a few cents, they could have just used the old safety and dropped the new PC mess in the box for those poor,deluded and ignorant fools that want them.

July 16, 2001, 09:10 AM	#9
kerth Senior Member Join Date: November 29, 2000 Location: Huntsville, Alabama Posts: 130	870, 1100, 11-87, 7600 and 7400 all use same "PC safety". Don't know if any of Remington's .22 use it or not.

July 16, 2001, 09:41 AM	#10
Dave McC Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 13, 1999 Location: Columbia, Md, USA Posts: 8,811	Zane, here's my opinion on Jumbo safeties.... The bigger they are, the easier to get knocked on or off at an inopportune time. Since 10 minutes of practice is all it takes to familiarize with the standard safety, why switch?....

July 16, 2001, 11:03 AM	#11
Guyon Senior Member Join Date: July 27, 2000 Location: Over the Hills and Through the Woods, Tennessee Posts: 1,207	Thanks kerth. I just ordered a couple more of the standard safeties--one for the 1100 and one for... well, who knows? Maybe an 11-87 waaay down the road. __________________ Gun control should just be about hitting your target.