I've always been interested in Auto 5's and the Remington and Savage clones. A Remington 11 showed up at the local shop and I was checking it out today, I've been doing some research online but thought I'd swing by here and see if there were any Remington 11 gurus.
This Model 11 is in decent shape, the receiver is the non-engraved type, the bluing is actually pretty nice and doesn't look like it's been redone but if it has ever been redone then it certainly wasn't recently. The wood is is good looking shape and free of cracks. The barrel has been cut to about 22 inches and has a Cutts compensator on it with a spreader choke installed. It has this style of safety..
I partially took it down while I was checking it out and everything looked dry and a little dirty but otherwise pretty good except that on the side of the barrel opposite of the extractor there was a line of brazing. I looked around online for pictures of model 11 barrels but couldn't find any pictures of one brazed in that spot which leads me to believe it was once broken, though I couldn't see any evidence of a crack anywhere around the brazing or on the opposite side of it by the extractor.
The brazing was here
I checked the date code on the barrel and if I checked it right then it's from April of 1941 though the number by the ring on the barrel isn't the same as the number on the receiver (though I'm not sure they're supposed to match). Barrel number is 440xxx and receiver number is 67xxx, The shop is asking $300 (price tag says $400).
I'm not a huge shotgun guy, the range I go to is indoors, pretty short, and they only allow slugs so I wouldn't really be shooting it there much, but occasionally I'd like to take it to the skeet range 2 towns over or if the situation presents it's self perhaps hunting but that's not my main concern, apart from that it would just be for home defense though really I have plenty of other stuff for that. Most shotgun designs don't do much for me but I love the old humpback design so this Remington 11 seems like a good fit but I figured I would run it by the experts, anything I should know or find out about this one?
This Model 11 is in decent shape, the receiver is the non-engraved type, the bluing is actually pretty nice and doesn't look like it's been redone but if it has ever been redone then it certainly wasn't recently. The wood is is good looking shape and free of cracks. The barrel has been cut to about 22 inches and has a Cutts compensator on it with a spreader choke installed. It has this style of safety..
I partially took it down while I was checking it out and everything looked dry and a little dirty but otherwise pretty good except that on the side of the barrel opposite of the extractor there was a line of brazing. I looked around online for pictures of model 11 barrels but couldn't find any pictures of one brazed in that spot which leads me to believe it was once broken, though I couldn't see any evidence of a crack anywhere around the brazing or on the opposite side of it by the extractor.
The brazing was here
I checked the date code on the barrel and if I checked it right then it's from April of 1941 though the number by the ring on the barrel isn't the same as the number on the receiver (though I'm not sure they're supposed to match). Barrel number is 440xxx and receiver number is 67xxx, The shop is asking $300 (price tag says $400).
I'm not a huge shotgun guy, the range I go to is indoors, pretty short, and they only allow slugs so I wouldn't really be shooting it there much, but occasionally I'd like to take it to the skeet range 2 towns over or if the situation presents it's self perhaps hunting but that's not my main concern, apart from that it would just be for home defense though really I have plenty of other stuff for that. Most shotgun designs don't do much for me but I love the old humpback design so this Remington 11 seems like a good fit but I figured I would run it by the experts, anything I should know or find out about this one?