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Back when I started shooting registered skeet in 1975, I shot pump guns in all 4 gauges. I had a M12 in 12 ga., a M 870 in 20, a M870 in 28 and a M42 in 410. The 20 ga .M870 was the standard weight gun and was fine as bought, but I made a solid brass extended magazine cap for the 28 to improve the forward weight. The M42 already had a steel bodied Cutts installed, but I needed more weight so I found a thin wall brass tube the length of the plug and the diameter of the shell rim, and poured it full of melted lead and put it in the magazine ahead of the spring. I saw others using the match weight skeet caps too. The standard weight 20 ga 870's and 1100's were sought after back then by serious skeet shooters for their increased weight.

Two Piper not only had a 12 gauge frame on his 20 gauge 870, it didn't weigh anyone's 6 1/4 pounds. I still have my standard weight 20 Sunlight around here somewhere. I ran 100 with it at the Maryland State NSSA shoot one year and lost the shootoff in the first pair because I switched to my K32. Model 42s don't have to weigh a lot to be competitive. My prewar solid rib 42 with steel Cutts has run 100 straight and also has run 244X250, both on the same day. I won't do that again.

Geo, I sure your right, I was relying on my memory from 40 years ago, with an 870 unless the plug is secured it can be removed by just removing the magazine cap.

Checked this morning and Numrich lists the small bore Remington magazine cap weights as back in stock. So I ordered three, on the premise that if you find something you like/need, buy extra because next time you need it they will have stopped making it. Thanks to all, especially eightbore and skeettx.