I wish I would’ve asked Harold how he knocked a chunk out of the stock right behind the safety. Sarah brought me his 870 at the end of March as she didn’t want it left around. Both of his sons died of cancer in their 40s, so I was his ear and occasional squirrel-hunting partner. We would sit on each other’s porches and talk hunting for hours. When he found out I had a slug barrel that would fit an 870, he started borrowing it a couple days before the season opened and would return it after the first couple days in. He couldn’t believe it when the quail went away. He talked often of jumping 50 birds in a day, more if you were “shooting wide,” as he would say. He cut the barrel back and threaded it for a Colonial Full choke and added a decelerator pad after joining NWTF and being, as he put it, “Brainwashed by their magazine.” He loved quail first. “You just gotta shoot them out yonder,” he would say. Prefix S made between some time between 1968 - 1973 so this negates the 1999 above. He hunted turkeys, for which he made all his own calls squirrels of course (this is south central Missouri) and for years quail-even with a Full choke. The first two characters are 'RS' meaning it was manufactured Nov 1998 I'm not very learned about these things. But, I'm perplexed when I looked up the serial number. its 110 year history This shotgun is in absolutley great condition with no big. I'm very familiar with how to operate it as I carried one and qualified every year for 28 years in my Law Enforcement career. Present) Serial Number Blocks: N/A Variations:The Remington 870 Barrel is the. This old 1957 Wingmaster was the only gun he ever owned. where the serial numbers are on their particular models The thing is. A REMINGTON 11 87 shotgun is currently worth an average price of 1,093.06. Harold was in his late 80s or maybe 90 when he passed in February. This gun came to me recently from my longtime neighbors, Harold and Sarah.
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