older remington pre 11s

[nebraska]

im new to this place..im older and dont type well nor am i a computer guru...but one of my first and (hopefully not my last) turkeys was with a remington 11 and a pre 11...i have a few of them 1908 to 1923 0r so...the info is kinda limited ..and i called remington on the serial numbers..and i believe they come close....they say they began with no 1000 but i have seen 4 with 3 numbers..and a few lunch box guns with no numbers at all.....but if any of you know of any for sale reasonably..let me know...........thanks

 

[WestKentucky]

I have a 1926 m11. Love it. Keep shooting those old scatterguns and enjoy them. Worst case scenario is that it ends up like mine which was nearly a wall hanger but is now slicker than most race guns. My 1148 got the same treatment along with interchangeable chokes. They were the first successful auto loader, they are quite possibly the most robust as well. I have seen factory logbooks where they documented serial numbers. I will try to dig that up and put the link on here for you.

 

[Safetychain]

I have an 11 with a SN 94xxx that when the cork buffer pad finally disintegrated a few years ago requiring me to replace it, somehow/where I found credible evidence that it was from around 1930. This gun was my deer gun in the 1960s and 70s, duck, dove and quail ever since. It is serving duty as home defense right now. It was given to me for Christmas by Santa when I was 10 years old in '59. It was in used condition with a bulge in the barrel where Santa must have accidentally left it barrel up in his sleigh through a snow storm during the trip down and then test fired it before leaving it. It still has the bulge and it still shoots fine and I'm still too cheap or maybe just too sentimental to get a new barrel. When I replaced the buffer was when I obtained my first owners manual that informed me that I was supposed to be setting the brass recoil rings depending on the power of the shell I was shooting. There had been literally thousands of shells, high and low brass, fired with the lightest recoil setting. At least one box of slugs and many boxes of various size buckshot. And this was when ALL shotgun shells came in 25 per box. This is one bang up, well made, bull of a shotgun. And I'm sorry to tell you that I will never sell this gun. However, I have seen a few in my local high priced gun shop as well as a few in some of the gun shows in my area, Charleston, SC.

 

[USAF_Vet]

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=743134

Here is the link to your similar thread from a few days ago.

 

[Robert]

Please don't start more than one thread on the same topic. Your first thread was moved tothe Firearms Research subforum as it was a better fit there.