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Post by Bill on Aug 17, 2011 8:16:36 GMT -5
Picked me up a new shotgun. ;D Well its another one for me I guess and not new. I bid on a bunch of guns from a Police Dept evidence room. Seems they wanted to get rid of them and use the money to purchase some new duty guns and SOooo I bid on them. Well I got the bid and they came in and boy howdy were some of them rough. I ended up buying one of them for myself and everyone thought I was nuts. Probably am but not because of the gun. For $36 I ended up with a Remington 1100. Someone had swung it like a bat and busted off the butt stock along with the recoil buffer spring tube that goes back into the butt stock. I'm having a new one brazed back on and all new parts installed and then I will have two 1100's with one set up for 2 3/4" shells and the other set up for 3" shells seeing as how I have already enough extra barrels and stocks to make two complete shotguns except for the action. I'm going to have an extra 3" vent rib barrel that I can sell to help cover part of the cost but with it being a 30" Full choke barrel with fixed choke it probably won't bring much more than $50 but it should be a fun project.
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Post by Jack on Aug 17, 2011 10:48:01 GMT -5
Always room for another shotgun, eh, Bill?
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Post by bounce on Aug 17, 2011 12:23:48 GMT -5
If it is a Remington he has room.
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Post by Bill on Aug 18, 2011 8:08:30 GMT -5
Yup, just goes to show you, some people can get used to anything. For that price how do you not?
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Post by dovehunter on Aug 18, 2011 12:55:21 GMT -5
The 1100 is the best autoloading shotgun ever made IMHO. It's the benchmark by which others should be judged. And I don't necessarily consider myself all that much of a Remington fan.
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Post by jmarriott on Aug 18, 2011 16:25:25 GMT -5
The 1100 is the best autoloading shotgun ever made IMHO. It's the benchmark by which others should be judged. And I don't necessarily consider myself all that much of a Remington fan. The old humpback Auto 5 might give that a run for the money. Just a little pickier on the shells you feed it. If you load high brass 5's all the way they are great. If you want to shoot low brass cheap 9's the buck full power then a slug them a low brass number 6 and a high brass number 4 then the auto-5 is less reliable than the rem 1100. I do know a few hunters that load up weirs stuff like mixed shells.
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Post by dovehunter on Aug 19, 2011 7:39:00 GMT -5
I traded in one of those A-5 "jammamatics" to get my 1100. I had two A-5s - a 20 ga. Lightweight and a 12 ga. Magnum - and they were both chronic jammers. I would never have another one. Getting rid of the A-5s and getting the 1100 was probably one of the best gun trades I ever made. Come to think of it, I can't remember my 1100 ever jamming, whether using 3" shells with the magnum barrel or 2-3/4" shells in either of my two standard barrels.
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Post by jmarriott on Aug 19, 2011 19:11:47 GMT -5
Nothing against the 1100, Dad still kicks himself for not buying me one at Kmart when he bought me my first wingmaster 870. They 1100 was 20 dollars more than the 870.
The 1100's They do run and run with anything even in freezing weather . I like the humpback because that is what dad always used. I only had his mess up once on me and it was not really the guns fault. I was hunting deer and along came a nice coyote. I had been walking in head high weeds in a CRP field and when i went to press the trigger nothing happened. I looked down and a small stem off of one of the weeds had opened the action a little and it failed to fire. Being a 870 shooter I had never had to check it after a weed walk.
The jams often are caused by the barrel nut not being tightened enough. Dads needs to be switched between high brass and low brass. It is one of John Moses Brownings classics.
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Post by bounce on Nov 10, 2011 17:35:44 GMT -5
Thought I would borrow your thread bill to post my new Shotgun from T/M's. Yes it offten is the result of stoping by to say hi to T/M's you end up bying something, Yesterday I brought home a Ted Williams model 200 12ga. 2&3/4 Vent rib with two beads for sights. For any one reading that dosent know this is sold by Sears Robuck & Co. but is realy a Windchester 1200 Yes T/M's demanded a whole frog for it with Ivery toenails, but I just could not take a pass on this tereasure anyway, just had to have it!! I mean it's a Ted Williams after all!!!!! Who would pass on that?? Heck Sears stoped the Ted sires way back in 78 they must be darn collectable by now. He he he
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Post by Jack on Nov 10, 2011 20:24:00 GMT -5
Congratulations, Bounce. I always thought the 1200 was a fine pump gun.
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Post by Bill on Nov 11, 2011 7:55:35 GMT -5
Seems to me that the Ted Williams was just a step up over the standard model. Just a bit nicer finished that is. Don't know what the frog cost you but I have a thought you did alright. When I get those in they seldom sit on the racks long.
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