Remington Model 1100...Because I've Always Wanted One!

"I got my 1100 from JC Penney back in the 1970s. Heading out with it to hunt deer tomorrow morning."

My quote function seems to not be working.

Anyway, I also got mine from JC Penney in 1974. It was a gift from my future (and current) wife. I told a friend that my girlfriend bought me a shotgun. He said that's the girl to marry. Still have the gun and the girl.
 
Oh God, why did you do that to such a lovely 1100??????

I mean its your gun, do what you want, but a Mossberg 500 security model would have accomplished the same thing without ruining a perfectly field gun.

Sorry I usually don't criticize what people do to their guns, but I have a soft spot for nice shotguns, and classic Remingtons in particular
 
I agree with the others that cutting the barrel was a shame. I believe I'd have just bought a short barrel and kept of sold the original barrel. I also agree with the others that the 1100 is a good, dependable design.
 
HarpHack said:
Mine was my first shotgun at age 16. I recently got a set of replacement seals (O rings) which I suspect most are due for by now.

I plugged my magazine once with a green stick so I could hunt doves and then forgot about it. Badly rusted the magazine and spring but it still runs fine.

Only thing I hate is how it throws my hulls in the dirt (I reload).
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That reminds me, I think I have an old tooth brush in mine. Went dove hunting and remembered I had taken the plug out. Remembered I had been to the dentist and used the brush that they give out.
 
The Model 1100LH at the bottom in these two photos was a present from my parents for Christmas, 1976. So I'm getting real close to having owned it for 44 years. :)

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I've taken many dove and pheasant with it. It's always been a reliable, good shooting shotgun.
 
Patrick L said:
Oh God, why did you do that to such a lovely 1100??????
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What are you talking about? It's still a beautiful 1100! It's now the exact gun I've envisioned owning for many years.

My gosh, you'd think I just cut down a Triple-lock into a snubby!

My main reason for trimming this barrel was that should I decide to add sights, I can clamp them to the rib.

My main reason for not buying a shorter barrel and keeping the long one is that I am not now, nor have ever been, a bird hunter. Like I posted earlier, I can hit flying birds, as well as hit a golf ball, or make a perfect cast with a fly rod. I just have no interest in any of those things.

After all, it's just a barrel.
 
All those years ago when I was shooting an 1100 regularly, I was warned to keep the gas ports in the barrel clean, especially on the magnum model since it only had one port. I was a pipe smoker back then, so it was easy to dip a pipe cleaner in Hoppes No. 9 and take a quick pass through the gas ports.

Since I did it, I never had any trouble with the gas ports plugging up, so I don't know if it really helped or not.

But it didn't hurt.
 
chief38 said:
The Remington 1100 is a very fine, light recoiling, well designed semi auto shotgun. I've shot them for many years and can not every remember a FTF.

HintL: Always have a spare O-ring handy!
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I've carried a 12ga. and 20ga. "O" ring in my hunting billfold for years. As I recall ( shooting 1100s for over 40 years ), I did have to change one "O" ring while goose hunting just once. Keeping the magazine tube wiped clean and lightly oiled is the trick to keep from a busted or stretched ring at a bad time. MY buddies accuse me each year of carrying a couple "rubbers" with me, since the rings leave a tell-tale impression in the wallet.;):p
 
Speaking of 1100s just returned from a local LGS. They had two new 1100s. One in 12 and another in 20 gauge. Price on both was $969. Was told they were both "field models" and not Competition models. Price tripled since I bought one in 80.
 
I bought a Remington 1100 Lightweight 20 gauge from Walmart about 35 years ago ($325). I thought it would be a great gun for my boys. I used it myself for 30 years of Pheasant hunting in South Dakota. I had 2 great Brittany's so I always had the shortest shot and always shot the most birds. What a great gun.

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I bought an 1187 12 gauge from a local gun store's consignment rack about 6 months ago for $395 with walnut stock in unfired, new condition. There were two problems, first the thick rubber recoil pad was like a hockey puck with absolutely no cushion so when I shot a 100 rds of trap my shoulder hurt a little. A friend gave me a squishy Pachmeyer Decelerator pad and recoil was then very soft. The second problem was the wood looked like it was stained with no clear coat finish so I rubbed on a couple of coats of Tru Oil and the wood now looks beautiful. It has just the right amount of shine and I never really liked that thick polyurethane and impressed checkering on 1100 stocks. I'm extremely happy with my gun and I shoot it better than any other shotgun I've owned.
 
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I bought my 1100 as the first new shotgun ever, back in the mid '70's. I used it duck hunting in a salt marsh (you probably can see where this is going). I fell into a deep slough, over my heard. I was happy to have survived, but the 1100 was soaked with salt water. I flushed it with clean water, oiled what I could, but I didn't get the innards clean. It rusted almost immediately. Then I bought a case of Smith & Wesson duck loads. They were the dirtiest shell I have ever had. When I pulled the trigger, I had to wait for it to fire, if it fired at all. I know now that if I had taken it apart, cleaned it thoroughly and threw away those S & W shells, it would have been fine. I also had the stock swell up on the butt end because the guy who put on the recoil pad didn't seal the wood. I finally sold it for $100 and was glad to get rid of it.
 
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