UNIVERSAL SHOTGUN FOREND Reviews & Ratings

Rugged, shock-proof polymer replacement for factory forend upgrades your Remington, or Mossberg pump shotgun with a heavily textured tactical forend for home defense or competition. Deep grooves give a secure purchase for fast, positive racking and enhanced recoil control. Installation requires some disassembly of shotgun, including barrel, forend, and forend nut.

SPECS: Injection-molded polymer, matte black. 6" (15.2cm) long, 17?8" (4.8cm) dia. 5.5 oz. (155g) wt. Remington - Fits Remington 870 and Winchester 1200/1300 - 12 gauge. Mossberg - fits Mossberg 500, 590, and 835 - 12 gauge. Includes wrench for installation.

View Product

Write a review

5 Stars

3 Stars

Reviews Summary

The UNIVERSAL SHOTGUN FOREND has received mixed reviews primarily due to fitment issues. While some users appreciate the quality of materials, many experienced difficulties getting it to fit various shotgun models, leading to frustration and modifications. A few customers found the forend suitable for their needs, noting lightweight design and satisfaction for home defense use.

What Reviewers Are Saying

Fitment Issues

75%

A significant number of reviewers expressed frustration with the fit of the forend on their shotguns, indicating that it does not fit several models as advertised. Many ended up modifying or returning the product due to incompatibility, marking this as the most critical concern among users.

Product Quality

30%

While materials used in the forend received positive mentions, the overall quality is overshadowed by fitment failures. A few customers appreciated the good quality and finish when the forend did fit as intended, highlighting a mixed sentiment.

Satisfaction for Specific Uses

15%

A small group of customers were satisfied with the forend for specific applications such as home defense when it fit their shotguns properly, appreciating the lightweight and simple design without extra attachments.

Modification Requirements

45%

Several users mentioned the need to modify or grind parts of the forend for it to fit their shotguns. This has led to a perception that the forend may not be ready to use out of the box, which could deter potential buyers.

Sort by Filter by rating

For the $, I'm impressed with quality!

I'm replacing a wooden forend. Wanted simple and lightweight, got both! Perfect for home defense. Didn't need or want attachments - very satisfied!

Decent quality...if it had fit.

Material-wise, it's not bad. I read the other reviews about ill fit and dismissed them, thinking "How bad can it really be?". Well, it's hot garbage fitment-wise...didn't come close to fitting either of my Winchesters. Heed my warning! Buy something else if you want something that will actually fit your shotgun.

Tough Fit

Ordered it for Winchester 1300. Everything went well with this process, arrived well packaged, and is a good quality product, but for my experience it did no fit. I had to do extensive grinding on both ends to make it fit. Works well now.

quality material

Got this in the full stock kit, and had to gripe about it. quality material used and a nice finished product, but the fitment is horrible. the nut that holds it on to the slide still hangs out of the forend about 1/2 way and looks terrible when installed. the nut now comes VERY close to the barel ring.

not for 835

Does not fit a Mossberg 835. I tried, tried no luck. Used dremel tool to modify it, gave up in frustration. I have one of their forends on a SAIGA clone Lynx12, I use the recoil stock on 2 of my shotguns; this just didn't impress me. Sorry Phoenix Tech this product didn't work for me. Ended up buying Hogue over molded forend.

Warped and didn't fit

Manufacturing process defect left the grip twisted and malformed. I could see it wasn't going to fit without a lot of cutting and shaping. Would that be safe? Don't know, not interested in finding out the hard way.

Useless

I could NOT get this to fit my 870 Police Magnum. Once attached, the forend tube nut hits the barrel mounting ring before the shotgun's bolt locks into the barrel extension. Since the bolt cannot lock into place, the gun will not fire (thankfully). I have tightened the tube nut as far down as possible and still the forend assembly is too long and prevents the gun from going into battery. Other brands of 870 replacement forends work just fine. The problem is with this model. It is completely useless and a waste of time and money. It may be made to work with some removal of plastic material from the forend but there is little bearing surface as it is. Alternatively, the face of the tube nut could be relieved a little bit but I don't find that to be an acceptable solution either. I just went with a different forend (also from Brownells) that fit and functioned perfectly right out of the box.