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Old 03-25-2020, 09:26 PM
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I couldn't resist, in light of the current 870 thread.

Although I'm an 870 nut, I also have 2 1100s



Both of these I inherited from a very dear uncle who passed away. The 12 (on the right) is mine, the 20 technically belongs to my son. My uncle passed away when my son was 5. His daughters (my cousins) gave me the 12. I asked if I could buy the 20 for Matthew. They refused any money, and insisted I just take it and put it away for him until he was old enough (He's 25 now. In just a few more years I'm sure he'll be old enough...) Just kidding.

Incidentally, that 20 is the old 20 gauge LW, not the current LT20. The LW was the first lightweight 20. It takes a uniqu barrel with a short extension like the 870. Barrels are VERY hard to find for it, and $$$ when you do. I still have the original 26" VR IC barrel, plus the 28" VR barrel with after market screw ins I picked up for it.
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Old 03-25-2020, 09:36 PM
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I've got a Sportsman 48. A 16 gage 1148 designed for duck hunters . 2 rounds in the mag and 1 in the chamber without a plug. 30" barrel with a full choke, Had it for over 55 years. Recoil action so very little kick, light weight, and totally reliable. It reaches out a long way and touches birds hard. Still pretty but showing that its been in a few swamps and corn fields. A true pleasure to hunt with.
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Old 03-25-2020, 09:39 PM
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That Sportsman 48 is a great gun, but definitely NOT an 1100. Totally different operating system. Actually, I just started a Browning A5 thread. The 11-48, Sportsman 48 etc. were actually refinements of the Model 11, which in turn was basically Remington's licensed copy of the Browning A5. You might want to post your reply there.
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I shoot a lot of skeet and a fair amount of five-stand and sporting clays. I am primarily an over/under shooter but I also own a few Remington 1100s -- two 12 gauges and a LT-20. One of my 12 gauges has a 28" remchoke barrel and the other has a 26" fixed skeet choke barrel. My 28" gun has always been my change-of-pace gun, when I just feel like shooting something else. I bought the skeet gun with the idea that it would be loaner for when I was introducing somebody to the game. I figured it was something I could bring along for a guest or even let them hang onto it until they could get their own gun. Turns out, I actually prefer the fixed choke 26" barrel set up better.

Personally, I think a used 1100 is the absolute best-bang-for-the-buck/bottom-feeder starter gun for somebody getting started in the clays games. If you have $500 to spend, you can almost always find a clean 1100 and trade yourself up to a Remchoke barrel. If all you're going to do is shoot skeet or trap, a fixed choke barrel will do fine. The gun will do anything you'd ever need it to do and nobody at any gun club in America is going to look down their nose at you because you're using an 1100. No matter what kind of fancy Browning, Beretta or Perazzi they happen to be using, they probably have an 1100 in the safe at home. They're just great guns. Cheap. Reliable. Easy to work on. Parts, etc. are readily available. They handle great. They feel great when you're shooting them. Just super nice guns. Remington definitely go it right!


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Old 03-25-2020, 10:14 PM
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The 1100 has a good reputation for stopping power.

The tactical model holds 8+1 shots. With each shell containing 9 pellets of 00 buckshot, that gives an onboard capacity of 81 .33 caliber bullets each traveling at 1350 FPS.

Given a realistic close-range rapid aimed rate of fire of of approx. 3 rounds per minute, we multiply the 9 projectiles per shell times 3 for 27 projectiles per second. Convert that to projectiles per minute and we get a “rate of fire” of 1,620 rounds per minute of what is essentially a small caliber submachine gun.

So in terms of firepower, imagine a .32 ACP submachine gun with an 81 round magazine firing fully automatic at 1,620 RPM, far higher than the famously fast MG42 machine gun of WW2 fame.

That is what a Remington 1100 Tactical can do.

Devastating!
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Old 03-25-2020, 10:19 PM
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I only have one....a light 20 made in 1981. Bought it used several years ago and glad I did. I'm too old and soft to shoot 12 gauge magnums any more!! They wear me out.
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Old 03-25-2020, 10:24 PM
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Bladeswitcher,

I have 3 barrels for my 12. All started off as fixed choke barrels which I had Colonials put in. That's another virtue of the 1100 (and 870,) used barrels abound and are very reasonable.

My 26" barrel is my general all around barrel, which I generally shoot skeet with. I guess I would hunt with it if I could ever bring myself to bird hunt with an 8+ pound gun (not likely!)

I bought a 30 incher because I wanted more barrel for sporting clays. But man, that was too much. I felt like I was swinging a German 88. So the 30 " is used for my occasional round of trap.

I of course then got a 28 incher, and that is my sporting clays/5 stand setup.
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Old 03-25-2020, 10:29 PM
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My 26" barrel is my general all around barrel, which I generally shoot skeet with. I guess I would hunt with it if I could ever bring myself to bird hunt with an 8+ pound gun (not likely!)

I bought a 30 incher because I wanted more barrel for sporting clays. But man, that was too much . . .

The receiver on a repeater (such as an 1100) adds about 4 inches to the overall length of the gun. Consequently, 26" barreled repeater handles and swings about like a 30" over/under. In other words, 26-28" barrels on an 1100 has similar handling to the 30-32" break barrel guns that are common these days. A 30 inch 1100 is a LONG gun. I have a 30" Remington 870 trap gun and it's the longest shotgun I own.
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Old 03-25-2020, 10:44 PM
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I have a 12 gauge Special Field that I really like. I got it 20 or so years ago after a couple seasons of hunting SD pheasants with an O/U. I still shoot the 2 holer, but sometimes you need more shells.

With the 20 inch barrel, it handles just fine.
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Old 03-25-2020, 10:50 PM
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I have a 12 gauge Special Field that I really like. I got it 20 or so years ago after a couple seasons of hunting SD pheasants with an O/U. I still shoot the 2 holer, but sometimes you need more shells.

With the 20 inch barrel, it handles just fine.

A couple of years ago, my 90-something-year-old father-in-law informed me he wanted a .410 semi auto. I was in the gun business at the time so I set out to find him one. I looked for six months for an 1100 or 11-48 that was priced right. I saw a bunch of them in the $800 range but I wanted to pay about five bills. One day, a guy posted a "near mint Remington 1100 .410" on a shotgun forum. The price was $450. He didn't post any photos but I said I'd take it. Turned out to be a .410 Remington 1100 Special Field. One of just 200 made. Needless to say, dear old Dad didn't get that gun. I resold it for a tidy profit. About two weeks later, I found a decent .410 1100 for $500 and gave it to my wife's dad. Everybody was happy.

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Old 03-26-2020, 06:31 AM
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Mine has been relegated to other duties.

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Old 03-26-2020, 06:57 AM
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Favorite of mine. Back in 80 I bought a TB 1100 with 30 inch barrel for trap shooting. The figured walnut stock and bluing is awesome. Glad I grabbed it when I did. I know the new Competition 1100s are pretty expensive these days.
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I'm an 1100 fan, even though I don't have one anymore. At one time I had three of them. Two with 28" VR barrels and modified chokes (one was for my wife) and the other a 30" barrel, full choke, 3" gun. Never had a problem with any of them.

I killed my first buck deer with the 28" one. A lot of squirrels, and doves too. The 3" one loved 000 buck, but I never got a chance to use it on a deer.
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I have five of them. All Sporting Models with Vent Ribs and Screw in Chokes 12/16/20/28 and .410

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Old 03-26-2020, 09:24 AM
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You're like me with 870s. At one point I had all 5 gauges in those.

I wasn't aware they made a Sporting 16. I knew they made 16s, just not as a Sporting.

Was that maybe a special run for a distributor?
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Always my favorite shotgun. Especially the early Premium and Tournament grade guns with the cut checkering, fine wood, and deep lustrous bluing.I still own three. This is a photo of the butt stock of my Tournament Grade Skeet that I bought new in 1986, and still shoot every year dove hunting.


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Old 03-26-2020, 09:40 AM
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I currently have 2, a B grade trap and a Tournament skeet. Great shotguns.
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The 1100 has a good reputation for stopping power.

The tactical model holds 8+1 shots. With each shell containing 9 pellets of 00 buckshot, that gives an onboard capacity of 81 .33 caliber bullets each traveling at 1350 FPS.

Given a realistic close-range rapid aimed rate of fire of of approx. 3 rounds per minute, we multiply the 9 projectiles per shell times 3 for 27 projectiles per second. Convert that to projectiles per minute and we get a “rate of fire” of 1,620 rounds per minute of what is essentially a small caliber submachine gun.

So in terms of firepower, imagine a .32 ACP submachine gun with an 81 round magazine firing fully automatic at 1,620 RPM, far higher than the famously fast MG42 machine gun of WW2 fame.

That is what a Remington 1100 Tactical can do.

Devastating!
I have the Tac 4. It's a 9 round mag +1 in chamber. Here it is along side my Benelli M3 autopump combo. Bought the Rem in '05, M3 aound '11 have yet to fire either. Just not a shotgun type. I do like cool stuff.
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I am the opposite of many here... I have one... but am not a fan... great gun, but I own it because it belonged to my late Uncle, who used it when I hunted next to him as a child... I am an 870 over under fan boy... never warmed up to semi-auto shotguns... watched too many freeze up on pheasant hunts in my youth... but I will cherish my uncle's 1100 for as long as I am able to... it will come out to play occasionally... but I will never own a second one...
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I have a friend in a lgs chain that I chew the fat with a lot and he mentioned once he prefered the 1100 over an 1187 for various reasons I don't always agree with him on some subjects, but he does know a lot of things esp shotguns and I trust his judgement. He knew I already had the Tac 4 so it wasn't just normal sales pitch.
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Have a Remington 1100 Sporting 28 to instruct new shooters. Bought an extra stock and put a Jones stock adjuster from Recoil-less Engineering to better fit young ladies.
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Have a very soft spot in my heart for the 1100... A 12ga 1100 was my first gun.
At age 12 my Dad took me down to BEST Department store to buy me a 20ga 870 that I had been dreaming about....wouldn't you know it, sold out!
Dad talked with the clerk a bit and he handed me a 12ga Rem 1100....Dad asked if I thought I could handle a 12ga....Of course I said YES!
The most beautiful shotgun I'd ever seen...
Terrorized the local wildlife with that gun for a decade...like a moron I sold it for who knows what
Wish I had it still...…...
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I have a '69 version of one in 16 ga with a 26" imp cyl plain barrel and it's about the best dove getter around. It was about the best Christmas gift I could have gotten back then.
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The one I bought was my first shotgun. It is still my favorite, especially since I shoot it the best!
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