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I bought that 870 new in 1956. Best as I recall it weighed in at about 6 1/4 lbs. Quite certain the frame was not large enough to have been a 12ga one.


If you bought it in 1956, it was on the 12-gauge frame. That is all there was until Remington began phasing in the Lightweight 20-gauge Model 1100 and 870s in the early 1970s.