Big Green’s American classic, the
Model 870 pump-action shotgun reach a milestone with the 10,000,000 built as of last month. With its introduction in 1950, the 870 has been in continuous production ever since. I’ll bet there are a lot of stories out there about 870s. Here is mine. An older hunting buddy had an 870 in 20 gauge and sold it to another buddy who then sold it to me. It was a workhorse of a shotgun and carried well through fields and alders. Well the second buddy wanted the 870 back so I sold it back to him and the older buddy wanted it back so the 870 was sold back to him. We no longer buy and sell that small 870, but use a borrow-and-return method instead.
