hello folks this is Yamil Sued with Gun Stock Reviews and today we're going to do a
quick install of the Mesa tactical side saddle onto a Remington 870 shotgun
or in this case the 870 TAC 14 firearm so first things, first things first we're
going to make sure that the shotgun or in this case a firearm it is completely
unloaded we're going to visually look in the chamber and use our finger in there
just make sure that digitally it is an empty chamber and we have an empty
shotgun or a firearm in this case now hold this back and the first things we're going to do.
is we're going to take the side saddle and they send this optional
rubber gasket. I call it. that goes in between the side saddle
and the firearm
and we are going to install it so it prevents the aluminum frame from marring
or scratching your firearm so in this case we're going to start
by..
carefully cleaning this surface a little bit this thing had acetone on it and we clean it
really quickly so it dries quicker and we're going to use a towel to remove the lint.
make sure your hands are clean of any oils or anything like that and then
you take this this gasket and it's like a self sticky material remove the sticky
material from it and you're going to install it. see there's six screws in here.
and there's this notches in there
and go between the screws
and what this thing is going to do is going to prevent the aluminum from scratching
the surface of the shotgun or in this case the firearm. bring the shotgun in
and it comes with screws and washers to properly and Allen wrenches to properly
attach the shotgun well the first thing we're going to do is remove the factory
pins there are tools specifically for this but I'm just going to use a..
a screwdriver head to punch these out
first punch them out
and use the factory the
screws that come with the kit to push them out completely
they're kind of oily
so be careful with it so we're going to install the pin that comes with the...
with the kit and it goes real easy in there and get the bottom side there's two sizes a
wedge screw countersunk screw and a button side screw so the bottom side
screw is going to get a washer
and it's gona
screw on this side
We are going to leave it loose for the time being we're going to tighten it too much we're
just going to do it by hand and then we're going to remove the other pin
using actually on this side it's going to be fairly easy because you take this
side the longer screw cause it's a two-part
screw one has a bottom head and the other side has a wedge take the bottom head
and using the same screw tip you kind of push this one out
you might have to tap it a little bit I use a screwdriver head to tap it out
now you have your firearm is now ready to accept the sidesaddle one cool thing
about Remington shotguns in this case a firearm is that the serial number is
right here above the trigger guard and what makes a tactical is doing is that
they're sidesaddle has a cut out when you install it it will show the serial
number clearly so you're not going to have any issues with your serial number
being hidden or anything like that so now what we're going to do is we're
going to go on the other side of the side saddle and we're going to start with
either or screws. this is the one the back which is the normal wedge screw the
countersunk screw and we're going to carefully put it in there
we'll do it by hand
okay and the next one you take the longer one which is the one of the
two-part screw that we took apart
put it in there and this is where you're going
to need your Allen wrenches they send you to because you're going to need two
of them you're going to tighten it until you're kind of hand tight you're not
going to go too tight on it and you're going to put one on one side this side
and the other side and you got one goes one way you go one goes the other way
and don't go too tight with them I mean there's no need for you to torque this
screws too much specifically this is a pump-action shotgun it doesn't affect it
too much if you torque it but in a semi-auto like the 1100 if you torque it
too tight is going to affect and impede the workings of the semi-auto shotgun
that I had that happen to me once and it wasn't Pleasant then it's on the back side.
you're going to make sure that put your screw head the right position
tighten it until it stops
and then
like we did before we're going to put one on one
side and on the other side and proceed to tighten until it's hand tight
ok
now we have properly installed the Mesa tactical side saddle onto the
side of the firearm okay and it's really nice and tight and now that we're going
to properly cycle it and make sure they cycle correctly okay and make sure that
everything is working properly we're going to look inside again make sure we
still have an empty firearm the trigger make sure everything works so we're
ready to go to the range and test-fire this firearm and now we have enough room
to have the proper amount of ammunition we're going to have five rounds four on
the tube one on the shot shell and the chamber and six extra rounds for test
let's go to the range