What a difference !!

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First off, Thank you Sfttailrdr46...
A while back I made a trade with Don... a Benji 392 for a D34P. To my surprise he included a gift in the shipping box. A metal receiver and pump arm 880. He told me that he found this gun while on a service call to check out a furnace. The customer found it in the house when she moved in and asked if he would like to have it. Alot of you already know I am not a fan of cheap feeling plastic guns. Nothing against those of you who are. I enjoy reading about the amazing things you guys do with them. The metal receiver and pump arm do give this gun a bit of heft which makes it feel much less toyish. I had read about some guys filling the stocks on the plastic guns with things like caulking and such and thought I would give it a shot. I was quite surprised to find the butt plate was screwed onto this gun as opposed to being molded in. I removed it to find a nice 1/2" hole in the middle. The problem was, it was filled with styrofoam which was pretty easy to gouge out with a flat blade screwdriver. I happen to have 25 lbs. of #8 shot I use to reload my shotshells for my Trapmaster 1100. I cleared out enough room for about 5 good tablespoons of the shot. (I didn't think to weigh it) I just packed it in until it wouldn't take any more. I put a piece of tape over the hole so the shot couldn't make it's way out into the butt plate and rattle around. Boy, what a difference !!! I handed the gun to non-suspecting Betty Lou and she said "WOW.. Why is it so heavy?" It even changed the sound of the gun when fired to a more solid thunk. Now I'm thinking of filling the plastic fore arm covers as well. This is a very accurate and powerful 880 that I shoot with open sights. I'm very glad to own it.

[stonykill]

 Sounds about right 

   filling the stock makes the difference night and day. As big and time consumng  project as taping the muzzle end. Each take 5 minutes eachto do and totally change the 880.



   Funny I just repaired a metal/metal 880 for a long time friend. It shoots great now.  He will be happy. He bought it new in the early 80's with his own money as a young teen. And it is a great shooter. He needs it for nutter control.

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Thank you for replying Tom... I saw you post in another thread about the noisy pump arm on the metal/metal 880.  Seems a bit funny but, I lined the entire channel where the pump arm lays against the tube on mine with the fuzzy side of velcro. Mine quieted right down. I pretty much do this with all my pumpers. I don't think anything could make any pumper completely silent but this sure made it better. I've also heard that removing the spring that acts as a catch for the arm takes alot of noise out as well. I'm not going to do this. I can live with what I have because this is not my "goto" hunting or pesting gun.

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LOL... I see you edited your reply after I hit post. Yeah.... he might want to quite his down so as not to send a warning to his prey.

[stonykill]

  Yup, his is now lined. Next time I run into town I'll give it back to him and a lesson in care for it. It has never seen oil in the 30 years he has owned it. 

   I am going to see how old his kids are. I know one is now an adult, but I am not sure of the ages of the others. If it is age appropriate i may throw in a 2nd 880 for him. He did mention he kept forgetting to put it in his truck as his kids always wanted to shoot it. He is a firearms guy. Knows nothing about AG's. He just saw all of my FB posts with dead nutters, rabbits, etc with my Daisy's and asked me to fix his up.

[stonykill]

 Just an FYI Bill, all 880's have a removable plate with the big 1/2 inch hole to fill up the stock.

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Just an FYI Bill, all 880's have a removable plate with the big 1/2 inch hole to fill up the stock.

Cool, wasn't aware of that.

[Sfttailrdr46]

  You are quite welcome Bill the 880 was just collecting dust at least the 392 gets shot a couple times a week. I guess I am just not a Pumper guy more Springer and PCP

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I have a few that sit around and collect dust. I just plain have too many air rifles but, every time I make an attempt to thin the herd I sit and find some reason to hang on to each of them. Oh and BTW.... trading one gun for another is not considered thinning the heard.