Originally Posted by
ryanm
You should be OK with the "non-tactical" version. I don't believe you get any of the benefits from the police or military 870s with the commercial "tactical " versions. For the most part, it looks like they are calling it "tactical" if it has a black phosphate finish, breacher choke, non-ribbed barrel, and an extended mag tube. The desert recon feels like the Trinyte coating from the XCS or XCR, but I don't think it is.The folding stock and ghost ring sights are about the only other options for the "tacticals". There is a really good sticky on the differences it the police magnum lineup. I contacted OK Police Supply regarding a police magnum--they start at $700 and have a 6-8 week lead time. The Remington MCS is not available for public sale. They also wouldn't sell me an M24 with an AICS stock--not sure why that was an issue because the HS Precision version was OK to sell.
You could also by a wilson or nighthawk variant as they are based on the Police Magnum.
I decided to use the commercial "tactical" versions for my builds. I'm looking forward to stripping off the tiger-stripe furniture from the recon.
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I'm sure this version would be fine for me. I'm not a secretsquirrelparadeltasealjumperrangerswatoperatorberetwearingsupermallninjawannabe, so I don't really need a whole lot. Right now, I might put a few shells through the gun every now and again just to kill some time and have a decent HD weapon. If I do decide to take the plunge and buy it, I'll probably just put a tacstar side saddle on it, maybe a sling, and that's about it. I have handled several versions of the "tactical" line, and the only differences I've noticed are that the tacticals have different accessories that I really don't need. The express synthetic seems to be the "base model" for the tactical line, and I should probably buy that and see what I like and don't like before I worry about Knoxx stocks, ghost ring sights, and rails.
Anywho, I appreciate everyone's thoughts and comments. Now all I have to do is see if I can scrounge up a few hundred bucks to buy a certain shotgun.
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