Posted on 04/13/2012 8:39:38 AM PDT by smokingfrog
According to my brother and the truck owner, the trigger was not touched, just settling it in on the seat.
When you deer hunt with dogs, the guns are loaded. Yes, you risk a hole in the floorboard, but as long as you keep the barrel down, there is no threat to life.
If your claim was correct, there would not be a single deer hunter in the south left.
Both the truck owner and my brother said the trigger was untouched. The only mechanical input was the gun being settled on a padded seat.
I have some experience with the same gun, and it does other weird stuff as well. I wouldn’t trust it for hunting or defense. Mossberg is a better gun pump gun.
Also, no one I have known in the hunting world puts a loaded gun on a window rack. Now that’s crazy. You’re asking for a accidental beheading...
I guess opinions vary with experience. I have owned several 870’s and also Mossberg 500s.
My opinion is the MOssberg is a good, no frills shotgun but the 870 is the very best, even better than the Model 12.
Explain to me — and I ask this seriously — why does one need to carry a shotgun in their vehicle with a round in the chamber when hunting deer with dogs? In many states, mine included, carrying a shotgun or rifle in a motor vehicle with a round in the chamber is a serious offense. In fact, the DEC will charge you with a felony for merely resting a shotgun or rife in battery against a motor vehicle.
Can't wait to hear this.
Old Habits Die Hard at NBC
Posted on April 13, 2012
Only two weeks ago, NBC was caught having deceptively edited a 911 tape from the controversial Zimmerman/Martin shooting in Florida. This week, NBC accused Remington Arms Company of manufacturing unsafe firearmsspecifically its immensely popular Model 870 and Model 1100 shotguns. Gun owners will also remember the hatchet job that NBC did on the Remington Model 700 bolt-action rifle in 2010.
Remington and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have already set the record straight on the substance of NBCs current accusation, so for the moment we will address the purely political issues involved, and NBCs history of dishonest reporting to push its political agenda.
NBC coupled its accusation against the two models of shotguns with a call for all firearms to be subject to the oversight of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, something straight out of the Brady Campaigns playbook for the last 30-odd years. Gun prohibition activists have always wanted the commission to have the power to declare all firearms inherently too unsafe to be legal for sale. The Brady outfit even called for consumer products regulations on firearms in the gun control proposals it made to President Obama in 2008.
Read at:
http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2012/old-habits-die-hard-at-nbc.aspx?s=&st=&ps=
I pulled the gun out of the attic a couple of years ago (30 years later) and it did it again on the third round. Bolt out- it's a decoration now.
I have lots of other remington guns- and this malfunction is not the same as what the claims are.
We have both in our house and have found fault with neither.
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