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Post by Bill on Apr 8, 2012 9:51:21 GMT -5
I have had a Rem 1100 pretty much ever since I got out of school and bought my first one at age 19. First one I shot baby magnums through until I cracked the receiver on it. I got rid of that one and bought another. Got rid of that one and after a few years I ended up finding another one to buy. Since then I have ended up with all kinds of parts for my gun that can make it very very versatile. One thing that kind of escaped me and that I always wanted but had little use for was a rifle sighted smooth bore 20" barrel. Well opportunity knocked and I now own one. Picked this one up cheap. Let me put it this way, VERY CHEAP. ;D It has a bunch of rust on it but it cleaned off fairly easily and although it looks kind of bad it actually isn't. Last fall I picked up an action/barrel in 30" full with a vent rib that had the recoil tube and spring and yoke broke off but repairable. Its off getting that fixed although if the guy don't get it done soon I am going to get it back and send it to Remington to fix. That will cost me about double but at least will get it done but I think when I get it back this is going to be a fun gun to play with for the three gun matches the gun club I belong to has every so often. What I am going to do with it when I get it back is bead blast the second action I picked up and then cerocoat it in a matt green finish. I have an extra set of synthetic stocks and might do that in a coyote brown to offset the green. Could be a fun set up done that way. I think it is also going to get an extended mag tube along with it. Might even have to send it back to Two Moons and have him put in screw chokes to make it even more versatile. I also have a Bushnell Holo sight for it and have been thinking of having the repaired action drilled and tapped for a scope base rather than the one that I have now that uses bolts through the trigger pin holes to hold it on. It would make one hell of a bowling pin gun all done up like that and my guess is that it will weigh enough that the recoil with it will be almost non existent. So now I have 2 actions, 3 sets of stocks, 3 barrels. 20" rifled, 26" 2 3/4" Hastings barrel straight rifled with screw chokes, 28" Hastings smooth bore with chokes. A metro barrel for shooting subsonic loads that is so quiet that you hardly can hear it at 100 yds away. A Bushnell holo sight and mount. I can have one that looks pretty for shooting skeet and hunting with and the other that will look to be a full house race gun when finished.  |
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Post by Jack on Apr 8, 2012 13:52:25 GMT -5
Sounds like whatever comes up, you've got it covered, Bill!
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Post by deputydon on Apr 8, 2012 15:25:42 GMT -5
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Post by bounce on Apr 9, 2012 1:04:50 GMT -5
He's lazy
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Post by Bill on Apr 9, 2012 7:40:09 GMT -5
HMM lets see, why do I use an 1100 Rem as fast as I can work am 870 Rem.  Probably because it is what I have. ;D Actually its because the Rem 1100 is what I started out with and always like them and never had one fail on me. I always was fast with a 870 Rem as long as it was a 2 3/4" gun. When you give me a 3" gun I have a problem with short stroking it on occasion and I don't like that. Something few people know is the fact that a Rem 1100 is actually faster than almost any other automatic except for a couple. Those two are the Browning A-5 in 2 3/4" and the new Browning SX-3. The first one is about as hard to find all the parts I need to do the same thing as finding teeth in a hen. The second would be more practical of the two but does not have the aftermarket parts of the Remington. So I stay with the Rem 1100 because I have it and its cheap and I am used to it. I just wish it wasn't so heavy at times. ;D Either way, I think it will be fun to use for the bowling pin matches this summer. |
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Post by deputydon on Apr 9, 2012 7:52:36 GMT -5
HMM lets see, why do I use an 1100 Rem as fast as I can work am 870 Rem. Probably because it is what I have. ;D Actually its because the Rem 1100 is what I started out with and always like them and never had one fail on me. I always was fast with a 870 Rem as long as it was a 2 3/4" gun. When you give me a 3" gun I have a problem with short stroking it on occasion and I don't like that. Something few people know is the fact that a Rem 1100 is actually faster than almost any other automatic except for a couple. Those two are the Browning A-5 in 2 3/4" and the new Browning SX-3. The first one is about as hard to find all the parts I need to do the same thing as finding teeth in a hen. The second would be more practical of the two but does not have the aftermarket parts of the Remington. So I stay with the Rem 1100 because I have it and its cheap and I am used to it. I just wish it wasn't so heavy at times. ;D Either way, I think it will be fun to use for the bowling pin matches this summer. 8-)Oooooooooh I see !!!! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by twomoons on Apr 10, 2012 11:02:53 GMT -5
One question, how does iit shoot BLACK powder?
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Post by Bill on Apr 11, 2012 6:44:19 GMT -5
It don't. The one you played the trick on me with was my last one that I had. I think all told I have owned myself for personal use 4 of them and dad has one also. Black powder kind of messes them up.  It was kind of funny though although sure made a mess of the gun it still functioned. Well for a while anyway. I keep thinking that screw chokes might be kind of interesting with this 20" rifle sighted barrel. Do you also carry a choke that is rifled just in case a person was to shoot slugs through it Two Moons? My guy up here does not want to put in screw chokes as he says Remington barrels are not bored concentric.  He also will only put in Browning Invector plus chokes. He claims that by playing with the opening on a choke and starting with a Full choke he can polish it out until the pattern is perfect and that it will kill a turkey at 80 yards. I didn't argue. Sometimes a person is better off just keeping my  . I think it is doable but not probable. He also has a Marlin 120 pump that he did this to and says he has many kills on pheasants at over 70 yds. |
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Post by deputydon on Apr 11, 2012 7:10:18 GMT -5
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Post by twomoons on Apr 11, 2012 8:11:28 GMT -5
On Remington Barrels I have to measure, some are OK and some are not and I have the inside and outside bore gauges to tell. If it is ok there is no problem putting in screw in chokes and if you call i will quote you the brother in law price. You will need to send me the barrell and specify what chokes you want and I will do it and send it back in about 48 hours.
As to killing at a distance I use Carlson's tru chokes in the thin wall design and the x full is x full and with some poliish should be good to at least 50 yards on turkeys if you are not much of a caller, or have lost your bull dogging skills.
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Post by Bill on Apr 12, 2012 7:47:13 GMT -5
If I remember right Two Moons. The guy that told me about him doing the work on his gun and getting that longer range like he did was actually using by the time he finished a choke that was just a bit tighter than a Mod choke. He had found the same thing I did and that was the fact that a full choke is almost too much choke and actually would blow the pattern with modern loads and or too large of shot like say #5's. Worked fine with small shot like 7 1/2's and 8's though but with 5's a water hose did better. When opened up to an improved mod it got better and when polished out to a mirror finish and opened up just a bit his pattern closed down to better than an X-Full with few flyers. He also stated that he did this starting with an X-Full and opened it up a couple thousands at a time till he got the pattern he wanted. He is quite an experimenter and can become quite anal with his experiments. Me I would of just kept changing chokes till I found one that patterned the way I wanted it too. ;D Maybe polish it a bit but to open it up a couple thousands at a time. He also never changes that choke and uses it for everything. |
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Post by Bill on Apr 12, 2012 7:48:46 GMT -5
Two Moons, do you find the problem with Rem barrels in the older one or the new ones or don't it make any difference.
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Post by twomoons on Apr 12, 2012 8:12:20 GMT -5
Mostly with the older ones the new ones they have better tubing to start with and cnc machining. Send the darn thing in and I'll measure it!
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Post by Bill on Apr 13, 2012 7:23:20 GMT -5
I just might do that. Supposed to be coming down that way in May sometime so might just bring it along. Gotta pick Dad up and take him up to Big Stone Lake MN to go fishing.
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It was kind of funny though although sure made a mess of the gun it still functioned. Well for a while anyway. 
He also will only put in Browning Invector plus chokes. He claims that by playing with the opening on a choke and starting with a Full choke he can polish it out until the pattern is perfect and that it will kill a turkey at 80 yards. 
. I think it is doable but not probable. He also has a Marlin 120 pump that he did this to and says he has many kills on pheasants at over 70 yds. 