The familiar two-piece bolt freely sits in four small detents located on the fore-end slide rails that ensure the 887 is quick and easy to clean and maintain. Look beneath the surface though and there lurks an 870 albeit with a 3½” Magnum chamber.
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Just in front of this is one of the few areas of exposed black metal, the shell lifter and magazine tube are sans 870 whilst the initially hard to find serial number makes its appearance through a small cut out in the Armorlokt coating.
Different from what’s gone before, the release now falls easily within reach of the trigger finger and is far more straightforward to locate especially when the gun is cocked, the entire triangular bar moving forward. Add into this the embossing of the Remington and M887 Nitromag logos to either side of the wrapped steel receiver and that’s basically it, the only flash of colour being the Hi – Viz green and red bead and mid – bead that are embedded into the three, longitudinal grooved and integrated stepped 8mm rib.Ĭontrol wise, the familiar cross-bolt safety is recessed into the rear of the trigger- guard whilst the bolt-release is a concealed into the front. To ensure the shooter constantly maintains a firm grip, the over moulding incorporates numerous ridges with stippled inlays that run along the receiver, 28” barrel, the effect amplified along the entire length of the oversized fore-end slide. The coating itself is as described protective yet in its own way decorative. Apart from employing a vice and a sledge hammer, rest assured nothing fazes the 887. You can also take my word for it that when importer Edgar Brothers boasted that no matter how I tried, I wouldn’t be able to inflict any damage, they were right. When Remington says their ArmorLokt coating is resistant to anything and everything you can conceive of throwing at it, they mean it. Reason being that apart from the synthetic stock and thick SuperCell recoil pad, the rest of the 887 is encapsulated and sealed within an 1/8th inch thick ArmorLokt coating, this plasticized rubber type armour covering protects every micron of the outer surface. If not, what you’ve now got in your hands currently rates as the world’s first - as near as you’ll get - to an indestructible 12 bore shotgun.Īs soon as you assemble the 887 you’re instantly aware that it’s a big gun. That said, if you need anything more than what’s contained within, you’ve probably bought the wrong shotgun. With a suggested retail price of £660 it’s hardly surprising that the 887 arrives in nothing more upmarket than a cardboard box complete with choke key and a high tensile steel cable lock.
However, all that’s now changed in the shape of the all new, rubber armoured M887 Nitromag, a pump-action 12 gauge that’s relaunched Remington’s esteemed manually operated shotgun into the 21st Century complete with a serious attitude problem. Oft regarded as the great-grandfather of single-barrelled shotguns, Remington’s classic pump-action 870 has become something of a novelty and although military versions are standard issue to Germany’s GSG9 squads along with the model’s enduring appeal to practical shotgunners, for many it’s just plain old fashioned. If there’s one company that can take an old design and breathe new life into it, it’s Remington.
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