Posted: 6/1/2017 3:40:43 AM EDT
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If you were going to configure an 870 for less-lethal use, how would you set it up? Assume it is for private citizen use (as needed).
Furniture? Preferred LL rounds? Light? Sling? Educate me. |
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The only reason I can see the need for a dedicated less lethal build is for riot control cops.
In which case I'd want something with a short barrel to reduce likelyhood of a rioter successfully grabbing the barrel. So 14 inches. Then I'd want color marking to verify that it isn't a gun that gets loaded with lethal rounds. So have MagPul stock and forend painted light blue with orange markings. Also a two-point sling to prevent it being grabbed out of my hand. And maybe a flashlight. |
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If you were going to configure an 870 for less-lethal use, how would you set it up? Assume it is for private citizen use (as needed). Furniture? Preferred LL rounds? Light? Sling? Educate me. I think it's a bad idea as a regular citizen. Sounds lawsuity. That being said, I'd go orange furniture from Magpul, as is tradition. Either rubber buckshot, or rock salt. Light = Surefire forend. Don't think they make them in orange, but honestly never checked. |
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Just rack the slide, works every time.. That, and a new 870 probably won't work anyway, so it's less lethal from the factory. 
I was going to say I'd sell him my 870 Express. It's a jam-o-matic and often very difficult to even load fully. Less lethal by design. Bravo Remington!!! |
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I think it's a bad idea as a regular citizen. Sounds lawsuity. That being said, I'd go orange furniture from Magpul, as is tradition. Either rubber buckshot, or rock salt. Light = Surefire forend. Don't think they make them in orange, but honestly never checked. At least they used to. I was issued a bear aversion gun back in 2007 that had an orange reduced LOP Speedfeed stock and a blaze orange SF forend with the light and switches. I can't say whether or not you'll need agency letterhead or not, but LL beanbags work great on problem bears. The UOF "continuum" that I used was beanbag, rubber buck, rubber slug, repeat once more then Boom Youre Dead. Also, open choke needed for most LL beanbags IIRC, . |