Foxtrot Mike Products (FM Products) released a new firearm called Ranch Rifle that despite being based on and sharing a lot of features with the AR-15, is quite a departure from the original AR design as it has a bufferless action and uses Remington 870 shotgun stocks! [Read More…]
Oh, baby! We do short-barreled shotguns all too seldom here, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like them. Here’s a magnificent picture taken by Holt Works, and the Vang Comp 870 SBS. Here’s the part list to inspire yourself: @vangcomp [Read More…]
Mesa Tactical, that California expat company now located in Reno, Is known for law enforcement- and home defense-ready upgrades for long guns. My first experience with their gear was installing their Sureshell shell carrier/rail combo on my Remington 870 Tactical [Read More…]
If you’re anything like me, then movies have been a huge influence on your love for firearms. Whether it’s classic movies like Heat, Die Hard, or True Lies, all of these movies made an impression on me when it comes to what I thought was a cool movie [Read More…]
When it comes to purchasing firearms, there are certain types out there that aren’t practical or even all that useful. Sometimes it tugs at your heartstrings for no reason and you absolutely have to have it. For some odd reason, I have always felt the Remington [Read More…]
About 6 years ago, Adaptive Tactical introduced their EX Performance Forend and Stock for Remington and Mossberg shotguns. The at the time new forend used a high-strength polymer that was equipped with a 2″ section of Picatinny rail so that a light or laser could [Read More…]
XS Sights has branched out beyond weapon sights and is now offering a Remington 870 2rd extension. They offered up one for review so I volunteered as tribute. I was curious to see if the 870 2rd extension would work with some outlier variants of the 870 platform. [Read More…]
Last fall, I wrote about my experience with the ATF Form 1 process to make a Short Barreled Shotgun (SBS). Between buying my 1980’s vintage Remington 870 Magnum, getting the ATF approval, and actually making it into an SBS has been a long time, admittedly though, [Read More…]
XS Sights has just announced their new Plus 2 magazine extension tube for Remington 870 pattern, 12 gauge shotguns. XS Sights has been making more than just sights for quite a while, but this is their first foray into the shotgun magazine extension market. The kit will [Read More…]
Shockwave Technologies have introduced their Raptor F1 shotgun furniture kits for the Mossberg 500/590 and Remington 870 shotgun models. These furniture sets include the forend and heat shield, and a bird’s head pistol grip. Shockwave Tech was nice enough to send a [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 50th edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’! HGFC is one of our many series here on TFB and today is our 50th instalment. What a wild ride it has been. If, somehow, you’re new to the series, you’ve missed out! This is where we [Read More…]
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Embassy Siege that spanned from the morning of 30th April to 5th May 1980, in London. During that event, a group of six men from an area of Iran, dubbed locally as “Arabistan,” stormed the Iranian Embassy in London [Read More…]
A few months back, I wrote an article on finding a Remington 870 police trade-in shotgun for right around $50. What I didn’t tell you was that I went back and bought a second 870 for the same price once the article was released. Both shotguns had some degree of [Read More…]
One of my favorite things about writing for TFB is being able to write about the crazy things I find in the wild. Last week I was running around the various shops in western Michigan and came across this bullpup 870 conversion. The guy behind the counter was an [Read More…]
For the month of October and our Reader’s Choice voting, we voted on the BEST Pump-Action Shotgun you could potentially have. For some of us, that open-ended statement might need to fill the need of hunting, home defense, competitive shooting, recreation or oddly [Read More…]
I first saw the pre-production prototypes of VOA aluminum handguards for Remington 870 and Mossberg 500 shotguns at Strike Industries booth at SHOT Show 2019. Recently, the company has announced that these forearms are now available for purchase. Let’s see what [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 29th edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, one of our many series here on TFB. If you’re new to the series (and you’ve been missing out), this is where we look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question [Read More…]
So since I posted my last Pawn Shop Finds article, I have been hitting even more gun shops around the state of Michigan. I’ve been looking for unique guns that catch my eye, but the only requirement is they have to be dirt cheap. I love roaming from various pawn [Read More…]
The Streamlight company recently announced their new TL-Racker shotgun forend which is compatible with Remington 870 or Mossberg 500/590 shotguns. The TL-Racker forend has an integrated weapon light and boasts 850 lumens with one and a half hours of run-time. [Read More…]
Aridus Industries makes some of the best accessories for shotguns. The QDC and CROM have proven to be the best setups to run on a Beretta 1301. My Magpul Edition 870 has all the Aridus goodies on it. The CROM was designed to allow an Aimpoint T1 or T2 to cowitness the [Read More…]
Does your rifle’s stock more closely resemble drift wood than walnut? Is your shotgun looking “battle worn” after lending it to someone? While most people make their best efforts to maintain their firearms there is always inevitable wear, tear and aging [Read More…]
The US Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, posted a sources sought notice for a ‘Modular Combat Shotgun’ based upon the Remington 870 on 23 May. The Army Contracting Command shared the notice on behalf of the Armament Research, Development and Engineering [Read More…]
Wilson Combat has introduced an improved Remington 870 shotgun built with the involvement of the retired law enforcement officer and renown firearms instructor Rob Haught. The goal was to make an ultimate defensive shotgun by making some design improvements and adding [Read More…]
Ever find it annoying that your Remington 870 won’t hold a full box of buckshot in the magazine tube or want to add some capacity without adding a ton of bulk? The Wilson Combat Scattergun Technologies plus one magazine tube only adds 2″ of length to the [Read More…]
Have you ever found yourself having to load your shotgun in the dark and you just couldn’t get the shells loaded into your shotgun mag tube? I’m sure we’ve all been there before. If you’re tired of fumbling in the dark as you load your shotgun [Read More…]
Have you ever wondered what benefit a sawed off shotgun barrel gives you? Does it spread the shot more? Does it remove the need to aim? In this episode of TFBTV, Patrick breaks out his short barrel Remington 870 and tests a barrel sawed to 14″ with a hacksaw against a 20″ barrel with a [Read More…]
For those of you not familiar with Vang Comp, they modify tactical shotguns. Last year I had them modify my Magpul Edition Remington 870. Here is what it used to look like. It came with a picatinny rail and an integrated XS rear peep sight while the barrel had a [Read More…]
At first glance, it is extremely difficult to tell the Remington 870 apart from the Mossberg 590 Shockwave. If the two were laid side-by-side on a gun bench, it would be tough to tell which is which from a distance. Their qualities and features overlap quite a bit, [Read More…]
With the NRA Annual Meetings going on, all of us expect a slew of new firearms to be announced and debuted, but few people could have guessed that Remington had, for a lack of a better phrase, a “loophole firearm” up their sleeves. The announcement of a [Read More…]
Jorge aka @silencers_1909 of Capitol Armory shows off his impressive suppressor collection and his Remington 870 storage space. It is one of those wooden pallet flags with a compartment hidden behind it. Here is the list of suppressors These are just his SilencerCo [Read More…]
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