Happy Birthday to my Rem 1100

[Pygmy]

Splitear's post  about his newly acquired Rem m12 rifle inspired me to check out the MFG date of my treasured 3" Mag Rem 1100....

I had been using a Browning A5  12 gauge 3" mag for my main turkey and goose gun.... It was great gun,  and I shot well with it,  but with it's 32" barrel, it was a handful for a sawed off little gnome like myself...

That was before  the gun companies started making special short magnum turkey barrels...The shortest 3" magnum BBl you could buy was 28", and the great majority were 30" or 32"...

SOOO, when I read in shotgun news that one of the gun shops in PA ( perhaps GRICE) was selling 3" mag 12 gauge 1100s with 26" full choke barrels, I just had to have one....

Back in those days, I couldn't afford to buy a new gun without selling something, so I sold my A-5 for $340 ( $40 more than I paid for it) and bought the 1100 Magnum...It has been a fine shotgun and has accounted for many turkeys and also a bunch of deer with the fully rifled cantilever barrel I bought for it...

I just checked the MFG date...It was made in 1980....Forty years old and still in fine condition and functioning as well as ever...

[Rattler]

1980 was a very good year.

[grampy]

Happy Birthday Shorty 1100!!! Shoot straight you young pup!!! Perhaps your owner will take you out, and get your tube cleaned?

[mowin]

I still use a 1100 NWTF. I'll have to check sometime, but IIRC, purchased it in the mid '80s.  Short bbl with xfull choke. Absolute gobbler killer. 

[Pygmy]

5 hours ago, blackbeltbill said:

Dan, I had a 20 Gauge REM 1100-- Skeet B model. I shot plenty of 25s straights in Skeet with that. Sold it a few years back.

In the late summer of 1973, Ed Hart's Gun Supply in Bath offered NIB 1100 Skeet A's for $169....

I bought one, also in 20 Gauge and that was my main skeet AND deer gun for several years....I broke a lot of clays and killed some bucks with that gun, but like you, I eventually sold it..

[Lawdwaz]

Ed Hart’s in Bath........that brings a smile to my face.  

[Elmo]

Happy birthday!

[Daveboone]

At forty years old, yours is barely broken in!

I always loved the 1100s, and they are a great used gun deal nowadays. Unfortunately I just don't do hardly any shotgun shooting anymore, and have a surplus as it is.