How do you load a bottom ejecting shotgun?
August 6th, 2010 by eranio
I’m thinking of purchasing a bottom ejecting shotgun and i was just wondering how you load them its a Remington 870 and I’m getting a good deal. please i don’t want to hear that bottom ejectors suck or any thing i would just like to know how to reload them? is it just like a side ejector? on the bottom but that wouldn’t make sense please help. thanks. and happy hunting.
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August 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
You must be getting one heck of a deal if you found an 870 with a bottom eject. Better take another look at that shotgun. Regardless of what kind of shotgun, you simply stuff the shells into the loading port, which could be a box magazine, a tubular magazine, or no magazine at all as in a side by side or o/u, where the loading port is actually the chamber. By the way, bottom ejectors, like the beautiful old Ithaca featherweights, are fine pieces of machinery. I had one when I was a kid, and I’m sorry I ever got rid of it.
August 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Go to the Remington’s web site all the gun manuals are posted
August 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
I may sound like an idiot here but I’ve never seen an 870 that was bottom eject. The 2 most common are the the Browning BPS and the Ithica. Those you load just like you would any other pump or auto shotgun in the tube. The timing of the action allows you to eject the shell first, then lets the new round pop out, carries it up to the chamber and pushes it in. Both of those shotguns are great firearms that have been around for many years.
August 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
bottom ejecting on a rem 870? i’ve never seen one, not saying they aren’t out there though
August 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
The only currently produced bottom ejecting shotguns are the Browning BPS pump shotguns or the newly remade Ithaca Model 37 pump shotguns. Remington, for a couple of years, made a bottom ejection semi-auto shotgun, but those are no longer in production.
As for all other repeating fire shotguns, they ALL load from the bottom.
Well, save for the Browning Double Auto and the 2000…
Check me on this…I could be wrong…
August 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
They load like a non-bottom eject. Not that hard to figure out.
That being said, I don’t know who prodded you into saying "please i don’t want to hear that bottom ejectors suck", but I want to find this person, and put their beliefs up against several Ithaca Featherlights of mine.
By the way, you could find a used Ithaca Model 37 Featherlight for some fairly good prices if you shop around. By far a superior shotgun to any other pump. Faster handling, better balanced, lighter, and more durable… not to mention the detail of finish…
August 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Remington 870s are not bottom eject. They side eject just like most other brands of repeating shotguns. Like others have said, the BPS and Ithaca 37s are the only popular bottom eject shotguns.