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Posted: 8/24/2016 11:16:46 AM EDT
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For Father's Day, I found an identical 87 Ducks Unlimited to my father's. He bought it used and it had a cracked wrist. I found the gun that I used for furniture for $500, and it probably was one of the best gifts he ever got. He loves the wood coloring, and we have been looking around for years to find a replacement.
So, I had a stockless 87, with a 26" ribbed barrel. To fix the stock, I picked up new walnut from Boyds. Due to getting the corncob forend, I had to get a new forend nut to make that work (the arm assembly that should have worked didn't, so I made the original work  ).
After the stock was installed, I decided to make it into a basic defensive shotgun. Sent the barrel out to RAS, and had it shortened to 20" (at a rib mount), and install two beads (white front, brass mid). I also had it threaded to Remington chokes, since I use 11-87s for hunting, and have an entire set (has Improved Cylinder in it now). 
I'm going to refinish the gun, and likely going to use CCR (used them for a lot of guns, never a problem). I kind of want to go all nickel, with their cera-plate. But depending on what they can do in regards to plating larger parts, I might Parkerize the major parts (barrel, magazine tube, receiver, trigger guard), and plate smaller stuff and internals. |
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A decent 37 Riot in 12ga is next on my Old Skool Cool list. I've always liked them, but in my area, they weren't very popular so they're hard to find and command a premium, even for well used and beat up guns. I want to do like you did, but with a plain bbl and no chokes. Hope yours shoots good.
I already have(All in Riot Configuration): 1918 Remington Model 10(19" bbl, was likely a trench gun that was cut down post war, serial puts it in the National Guard block) 1925 Stevens 520 Ranger double hump, w/suicide safety(20.5" bbl, probably belonged to a Sheriff or PD) 1953 Winchester M97(20.5" bbl, cut down a rung bbl to .mil spec, I have a repro bayonet mount but don't know if I want to trench or riot this one, it's a helluva shooter) 1957 Browning Auto 5(20" bbl, I cut down a beat up bird gun to the .mil riot spec) 1970s Winchester 1200(20" bbl, cut down another beat up and bubbafied bird gun to .mil spec, currently searching for a heatshield/bayonet mount for a Vietnam SOG clone) |
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