Actually marked WINGMASTER 87CTC on receiver.

 

I think it is marked 870TC. This would be a trap model with higher grade wood. Not a Competition model. They are stamped COMPETITION on the right side.

Alan

 

Completion should be engraved on right side

 

Ah, wouldn't an 870 be a pump gun, not a "gas" operated semi????

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Ah, wouldn't an 870 be a pump gun, not a "gas" operated semi????

Actually, there was a "gas operated" 870 . . . this was the 870 "Competition" model mentioned in a few of the previous posts. Obviously, it was still a pump gun, but it did have a "gas system" whereby gas bled off from barrel ports (just like a true semi-auto gun) was used to operate a recoil-reducing mechanism that fit inside the magazine tube. This made the gun a single-shot since the magazine could not be used as a magazine. This model was made from 1980 to 1986.

 

Not a single shot unless marked "Competition". Oops, late again. Trap, TA, TB, TC, and a few others like Classic Trap were all common Wingmaster trap guns. Actually very few of the Comps made and fewer still around.

 

The Competition model (the one I had) had NO shell stop machining in the receiver either so that receiver could NOT be used as a standard 870 with shells in the magazine..

 

If it’s a TC and in good shape jump on it!

 

The 870 Comp had one of the better barrels Remmington ever produced definitely a back fence shooter or for other games

 

How you suppose they compare to an old model 12?

 

/\/\/\/\/\ Still have a pair of each only major thing is 870 comp is softer shooting by design

 

If the stock has cut checkering it is an original TC stock. TB's and TA's had pressed checkering. There are lots of 870 traps with wood swaped from other guns.

 

The 870 Comp with size 6 shot was IMO all most unbeatable in "games" shoots.

 

Never heard of an 870 gas operated shotgun…really interesting comments also…learn something new every day !

 

Kind of surprises me that some never heard of the 870 Competition gas model. They have been around awhile and used to be numerous. I almost bought one but ,up keep and keeping parts seemed a little tasking. I did borrow one to shoot once. I have a custom stock and recoil reducer on my 870 and can't really tell much difference in recoil from the one I have shot .

 

Slide Action, I had one and like you and also found the gun to be like some women I have known....High Maintenance.
I have known people who just put a regular 870 barrel w/o the gas ports to get around that but then you just have a single shot high shooting 870.
The recoil reduction also was kind of lacking IMO. I have 2 of the old steel Vari-Weight plugs in all of my 870 trap guns and they do not kick any harder than a 870 Competition.

 

What is the benefit of a really high shooting trap gun?