Dammit, y'all cost me money. I've got an 870 Wingmaster with an 18" barrel and Surefire forend on the way. It'll be about $300 with shipping and transfer fee. When the mad money fund builds back up it'll go to Wilson for the Remington Steal package and sights.
What about the full Vang Comp?Originally Posted by revchuck38
The package including sights from Wilson is $380, the full Van Comp is $840. That $460 difference would be more effectively spent on ammo and training. Some folks here have lots of disposable income...I'm not one of them.
If you have an older Surefire forend, this is what you want for it:
https://www.surefire.com/lm2-6v-whit...d-forends.html
1000 lumens. Street price is about $150. I upgraded my Vang 590a1 with one, and I am very pleased.
That’s more than I paid for the forend (about 20 years ago). I did put a Malkoff LED in it, which upgraded it to 250-300 lumens.
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Ordered and received. It's much brighter than the KX4.
The original 6P head wouldn't fully seat with this new lamp, but at my previous agency we'd replaced the 2-cell heads with 1-cell LED heads on our 870 forends, and I had the old one stashed away. Fits and works perfectly. This old 6P has a Raven clip/O-ring, and is now my nightstand light.
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Got my parts in. Mag extension, sling and jumbo safety. Also added Velcro to the stock for an Esstac card I found in a drawer. Set up pretty much how I want it. May mess around with sights a bit, but not sure. I painted the front sight white and took a triangle file to the rear and opened it up a bit. I think I’ll add a layer of orange to the front sight and call it good for now. One day I’ll probably get rid of the plastic side saddle and add a VC shell card.
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Nobody in the prosecutor's office had enough sense to load and shoot the weapon so you essentially got a new gun.
A little side note for those of you in SW Ohio: I checked out their website and ended up ordering a lower receiver. I picked it up Friday and found the staff to be some nice people. While there I had them order me a Magpul 10/22 Backpacker. I didn’t see any trade in 870s left.
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