Many of you will remember seeing these around 5+ years ago for around $200 ish. I bought a 20ga version for my daughter around 6 years ago being blown out for $109 on black Friday.

It's an 870 clone made for NEF / Remington in China. Our experience with the 20ga was that it was initially a bit rougher than a real 870 but solidly built. It uses mossberg pattern choke tubes. It smoothed out quite nicely after about 100 rounds. She's got a few thousand trouble free rounds through it on backyard clays.

Yesterday I saw a 12ga version on the used rack. Paid $150 otd. I'm gonna try goose hunting this fall and don't want to bang my upland O/Us around the marshes. I thought this might be good for that, and it will never be worth less than I paid. I may krylon camo it as goose hunters seem to like camo.

I figured the extra weight would help being all steel and 3". The previous owner must have used it for waterfowl as it has a Dowell rod in place to act as a magazine plug. These held 5 in the mag vs Remingtons 4.

Lot of views, no comments so I'll leave a brief note. A Wingmaster is a better gun than this, an express is not. I'd buy this gun knowing it will last decades in normal use and is a superior gun in every respect to the cheap turk clones currently proliferating the cheap shotgun market.

I had the "riot gun" version of these. I only shot it a little. It seemed stout enough. I think there's something different about the barrel from an 870. The band on the barrel that goes over the tube is in a different location maybe ?

Yeah, this is because it's a 5 shot tube vs the 870 4 shot. Some people were making a spacer to use 870 barrels on them.

My receiver is factory drilled and tapped.

My observation is that they smooth out with use.

Or, just shoot the thing and it will wear in.