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Turkey Guns & Shooting => 20 Gauge Turkey Guns => Topic started by: killdee on May 05, 2012, 06:12:54 PM

Title: Difference between 870 20 express and 870 express youth
Post by: killdee on May 05, 2012, 06:12:54 PM
Is there any difference other than the shorter stock and barrel?
Title: Re: Difference between 870 20 express and 870 express youth
Post by: mightyjoeyoung on May 05, 2012, 06:36:15 PM
Nope.  That's it.
Title: Re: Difference between 870 20 express and 870 express youth
Post by: Eric Gregg on May 15, 2012, 05:59:53 PM
Same action.
I have the youth and love it.
Compact monster. Great totting in the woods.
Title: Re: Difference between 870 20 express and 870 express youth
Post by: old frank on May 15, 2012, 07:52:20 PM
Yes I bought the youth specifically for the shorter barrel.

Added the full size Shur-Shot stock and it is a great turkey hunting gun.
Title: Re: Difference between 870 20 express and 870 express youth
Post by: gobblergls on May 15, 2012, 07:57:26 PM
The mfg. states the youth model weighs 5.75 lbs.  Has this proven correct?
Title: Re: Difference between 870 20 express and 870 express youth
Post by: killdee on May 15, 2012, 08:25:56 PM
I was asking because I bought a used 20 last month and while it had a speed bead syn. stock, it has a 20 3/8" barrel from the receiver to the end of the barrel and I wondered what it was. It reads Remington 870 express Magnum  on the receiver. I have since switched the stock to a SureShot, changed the trigger spring and am taking it in to be drilled and tapped for a marlin base this week.
Title: Re: Difference between 870 20 express and 870 express youth
Post by: goblr77 on May 15, 2012, 09:56:06 PM
Quote from: killdee on May 15, 2012, 08:25:56 PM
I was asking because I bought a used 20 last month and while it had a speed bead syn. stock, it has a 20 3/8" barrel from the receiver to the end of the barrel and I wondered what it was. It reads Remington 870 express Magnum  on the receiver. I have since switched the stock to a SureShot, changed the trigger spring and am taking it in to be drilled and tapped for a marlin base this week.

That's the specs on my youth 20.
Title: Re: Difference between 870 20 express and 870 express youth
Post by: killdee on May 16, 2012, 08:12:12 PM
Thanks guess I got a youth after all, thats what I was planning on buying in the first place, saw this one on the outdoor trader fairly cheap and bought it thinking it was just a reg 20 gauge.