var q remington870modelsbyserialnumberThe Remington 8. 70 Sixty Two Years Young. The US military continues to use Remington 8. A lot of things happened in 1. Color television came out. The Yankees beat the other New York team, the Giants, in the World Series. A first class stamp cost three cents, and Remington came out with a new shotgun they called the 8. Perhaps you have heard of it. Remys long line of scatterguns. The firm known today as Remington Arms is actually the oldest company in this country that still makes its original product. Founded in 1. 81. They started with flintlock muskets, added revolvers and pistols, cane guns, and finally in the 1. Their double barrel side by side scatterguns were all the rage before the advent of electricity. The John Pedersen designed Remington Model 1. By 1. 90. 8, they started making modern pump action guns like the John Pedersen designed Model 1. BrowningPedersen Model 1. These popular guns remained in production for 2. Pedersen Model 3. The 3. 1 was a great gun, with almost 2. Remington Model 3. Hex Nut 5 1624 Part Number 9123057 In Stock, 8 Available Note for Faster Service Obtain Standard Nuts, Bolts and Washers Locally. if These Items Cannot Be. The Remington 870 shotgun. If anyone can think of a more iconic scattergun let me know, because Im pretty sure this is the tops. Star of stage and screen and. The thing was, the Pedersen guns were a product of yesteryear. Fine walnut stocks, all steel receivers, and carefully fitted mechanisms crafted to compete with nemesis Winchesters finely tuned Model 1. What Remington wanted was a good old scattergun, just as good as Winchesters, but cheaper to make. This led to the 8. Design. A few models of many Remington 8. Remington side by side with the 1. Note the similarity. In 1. 94. 9, Remington was putting away its legacy guns and moving to a new generation of guns. It was the age of the atom and no one wanted to hunt with their grandpas gun. The Model 1. 1 4. Browning Model 1. This tube fed shotgun with side ejection and bottom loading was the building block of the new 8. Taking this receiver and replacing the long recoil operated semi auto action with a manually thrown slide action led to a strong and easy to produce shotgun. This also easily explains the similarity in profile of the 8. The action worked to provide positive extraction of a spent shell, replacing it with a new round with each pump of the slide. Whereas many shotguns of the day, like the Stevens 5. The 8. 70 debuted in a standard grade in 1. MSRP of 8. 0. 8. This was expensive for the time, being almost 7. Models, models, models. To put it in terms we can all relate to, there have been more 8. In history. Ever. In fact, more than 1. These guns have been made in literally so many dozens of variants it sometimes seems there variants have variants. To add to this over the years the company has made several specialized runs set up to be sold exclusively through one distributor or another, further confusing the exact history of these guns. From hunting to riot defense, the 8. Remington Wingmaster advertisement. One thing that is fairly clear though is that perhaps the most treasured of these shotguns are the Wingmaster series. These guns had a hunting scene engraved into the side of the receiver along with prominent Wingmaster roll marks. Made from 1. 95. 0 6. Field Wingmaster and then finally reintroduced in 2. Cadillacs of the 8. In 1. 98. 7 a simplified version of the gun, typically with a matte parkarized finish, was introduced. These guns, billed as the Express series, are often heckled by Remington purists as budget gunskind of Remingtons answer to Mossbergs Maverick 8. Model 5. 00. No matter what you call these guns, the Express in plain wood or synthetic stocks has been a solid seller in big box stores across the country for the past quarter century. Besides the luxurious Wingmaster and the plain vanilla Express, Remington has also made the 8. SPS series with camouflage by Mossy Oak or Real Tree, a Marine Magnum with electro plated nickel metal finish, the Brushmaster shorty satin finished wood and a 2. Competition Trap and Skeet series with higher grade walnut stocks designed for reduced recoil. Then there were any number of Police, Riot, and Tactical guns for the polyester or balaclava wearing crowd. For those who wanted a little more flash than the Wingmaster, there was the Tournament Grade 4. Premier Grade 8. Gold Grade 1. 2,0. Hunters have taken Remington 8. Did we mention they made 1. Collectability Odds are if you walk into a gun shop, pawnshop, sporting goods outlet, or old school hardware store who doesnt miss those, and a gun rack exists there is an 8. The thing is, with so many models out there, its hard to say just what the going rate is for these bad boys. Factory custom guns are beautiful and can cost as much as a good used car. In general, its possible to find older, non custom, 1. Nice old Wingmasters in close to mint shape can fetch well over 4. Occasionally well used read beat to hell and back former police riot guns can be had for far less. A few years ago I bought a pair of 1. Property of the Saraland Police Department that looked as if they were used as toothpicks by a T Rex for the total of 2. They still worked great, even with the stenciled rack numbers painted on the butt. More model 8. 70s on the used market. Recent Remington 8. Collectors pay a premium for 1. Be sure to get in touch with your gun books to figure out what model you actually have before you start throwing or receiving cash on it. The Rem. 87. 0 club has a reliable serial number guide for pre 2. Current offerings. Remington is not getting out of the 8. If you look at their website, they list at least 2. True to past experience, they are roughly broken down into several Wingmaster versions, several Express models, and some SPSMarine MagnumTAC Recon special situation guns. MSRP, as expected, can vary wildly.   Heres to another ten million.