Ever since I have gotten this 870 at age 16, it has been a royal pain in the butt every time I have to disassemble it for cleaning! Technically, taking it apart is easy- getting it back together is another story. My receiver forend rails DO NOT work the way I have seen every video on the internet work. It will not go in place according to any manual, written, or verbal instructions I have heard. What happens is, I start the rails back until it stops. All good, right? Press the right depress? How? It does not move. The only way they depress is if the rails are completely out of the gun before I slide them in. So then the go back and stop. But, wait! Now my left side does not depress! So then I saw the method on this forum saying to just use the left side. Well, it almost works. Rails seem to go in all the way... but then the action is stuck and will not cycle.
At this point, my best option? Bang the butt on the ground while holding the pump. Not hard, but just hard enough that it drops right in, and doesn't seem to have any issues. I am SICK OF THIS and want an exact answer on how in the **** to get these rails back in place!
Thanks so much... and sorry for the rant, but this is a "ridiculous issue".
Someone please help me figure out why my gun does this
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Re: Someone please help me figure out why my gun does this
You need to depress both shell latches in the right sequence to get the gun together properly.
Perhaps the ends of your action bars are getting underneath the fingers of the shell latches. If your gun is an older one, this could be the result of the shell latches coming loose from where they were staked into the receiver. It could also be the result of damage to the shell latches. In either case, "mortaring" the gun will only exacerbate things.
What happens if you depress the shell latches in the right sequence, but do it before the action bars actually touch them rather than waiting for the contact?
Perhaps the ends of your action bars are getting underneath the fingers of the shell latches. If your gun is an older one, this could be the result of the shell latches coming loose from where they were staked into the receiver. It could also be the result of damage to the shell latches. In either case, "mortaring" the gun will only exacerbate things.
What happens if you depress the shell latches in the right sequence, but do it before the action bars actually touch them rather than waiting for the contact?