Why should I not do this...

[ronlarimer]

FQ...  actually it was a nearly new shotgun (less than 50 shells through it) that I didn't shoot because it felt cheap and I couldn't build a connection to it, so my choice was to either fix it or sell it and buy something with a better fit and finish. 

In the process or dismantling it, working with it and bleeding on it, I got to try a bluing technique that I had never seen on a gun and it morphed away from my vision into what the gun wanted to be.  I have gone up to look at the gun more today than I have in the two years I have owned it and now I like the feel of the steel.

Now I have a connection to it and it will be easier for me to start to learn to run it and if I scratch it, it will just add character (plus I had the time).

[fightingquaker13]

FQ...  actually it was a nearly new shotgun (less than 50 shells through it) that I didn't shoot because it felt cheap and I couldn't build a connection to it, so my choice was to either fix it or sell it and buy something with a better fit and finish. 

In the process or dismantling it, working with it and bleeding on it, I got to try a bluing technique that I had never seen on a gun and it morphed away from my vision into what the gun wanted to be.  I have gone up to look at the gun more today than I have in the two years I have owned it and now I like the feel of the steel.

Now I have a connection to it and it will be easier for me to start to learn to run it and if I scratch it, it will just add character (plus I had the time).

As I said, I think it looks darn cool. It really does have that weathered look that adds some authority to the weapon. I know I sometimes get a bit snarky, but when I comment on a gun issue my posts are irony free. I really do like it, and I'd stop messing with it now (that includes not messing with the stock, unless you want a knox). The whole package works. Good job.
FQ13

[Timothy]

Your previous statement sums up the current line of 870 pump guns.

They feel cheap, need a few new parts replaced and a decent stock and finish to make them presentable.

[ronlarimer]

FQ...  I didn't take your comments badly at all.  I was just trying to make it clear that it was actually WORSE than you were joking about.  I took a new gun and made it look like it was in WW1 & !!.

I realize it is dumb and that my reasons for "needing" to do were dumb, but I am completely over tacticool and this gun will be about as far from it as possible, and still retain all of the functionality.

[Dakotaranger]

FQ...  I didn't take your comments badly at all.  I was just trying to make it clear that it was actually WORSE than you were joking about.  I took a new gun and made it look like it was in WW1 & !!.

I realize it is dumb and that my reasons for "needing" to do were dumb, but I am completely over tacticool and this gun will be about as far from it as possible, and still retain all of the functionality.

There's nothing wrong with the need to do it. 
Personally, I'd rather build the gun I want and not care what others think than try to conform.

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[PegLeg45]

Original gun was plain Jane.
Version 2.0 was way cool.
Version 3.0 is even better with the aged steel look.

As a "steel and wood" fan (for the most part), IMHO wood stocks (maybe a distressed look) would be the icing on the cake.
FWIW

[Dakotaranger]

Original gun was plain Jane.
Version 2.0 was way cool.
Version 3.0 is even better with the aged steel look.

As a "steel and wood" fan (for the most part), IMHO wood stocks (maybe a distressed look) would be the icing on the cake.
FWIW

+100000000

[ronlarimer]

Here is a link to the final write up and the wood stock...



http://balloongoesup.blogspot.com/2011/12/gun-porn-ruining-870-and-making-it.html

[Magoo541]

Here is a link to the final write up and the wood stock...



http://balloongoesup.blogspot.com/2011/12/gun-porn-ruining-870-and-making-it.html

Oh ya... the old police stocks finish out the package.  Good job, I may have to do the same thing now, I do have 2 weeks off over Christmas and the exact same 870....