questions 11-87 premier 28" light contour barrel

[timberwolf204]

I Have a Remington 11-87 Premier 28 inch bbl, light contour....love the gun, problem is It does not pattern well. I had it out rabbit hunting the other day with ok results. I can take my 870 wingmaster or my mossberg 500a and mossy has a 20 inch barrel and i can take game at longer distances then i can with my 11-87 with a 28 in barrel and rem chokes. (both Modified)

My question is does anyone know of any problems with the light contour barrel having patterning issues. I just cannot do well with it as i can with my 870 or even the mossberg 500. Any help would be appreciated and no i dont want to add to the remington mossberg war. I love them both, as i use them all for different hunting. thanks


I am thinking that im going to have to get a regular barrel for my 11-87
jason

 

[Dave McCracken]

Before you spend lots of money, try different ammo and a different choke tube.

Some Remchokes a while back were not concentric and did NOT shoot to POA.

As for ammo, barrels and chokes will "Like" one load over another, sometimes dramatically so.

 

[timberwolf204]

I have tried alot of different ammo, I bought the gun to shoot trap with and hunt with. I do some trap shooting in the spring but not all year. I have used alot of different ammo in it, as far as trap shooting I have shot winchester AA, peters, some federal, out of all of them i like the full choke the best while trap shooting. I am comparing it to the 870 wingmaster magnum with a 30 in straight full choke barrel. That wingmaster can break birds 10-15 yards further in twice as many pieces. Thanks I will try to see and maybe try someone elses choke in my gun before i go buying another barrel. I thank you for your help.

Jason

 

[Bill B.]

Some Remchokes a while back were not concentric and did NOT shoot to POA.

Got a buddy that had this issue with a 1187 Turkey gun. At 40 yards his turkey choke was only placing 5 killing shot on a turkey target. He replaced the Remington choke with a Briley Choke and went from 5 pellets to 37 at the same distance and the same shells. Just a bad choke tube it wasn't a barrel issue.

 

[Virginian]

Shoot it at a pattern board and see what it is really doing. Judging by shooting at targets is not the way to judge it, at all. I have two Light Contour barrels and love them. The same choke tubes pattern the same out of the LC barrel as they do out of another RemChoke barrel for me.

 

[timberwolf204]

I will get some cardboard and shoot this after the deer season or maybe on a sunday when the range is open thank you for all your help and very good answers.

Jason

 

[fastfreddie]

Jason,
Please repost when you have patterned on some cardboard.

I have an 11-87 Premier LC 28" barrel as well and I'm curious about your results. I have not patterned mine on paper yet.

I am a pretty poor shot with mine, but I think it's mostly shooter error. I would love to have something else to blame it on, lol. Okay only kidding with the last bit, but I sure would like to know if your suspicion is correct about it being a worse pattern than your other guns.

I gotta say, this is one of the prettiest semi auto shotguns I've ever seen, but I have been a fan of the 1100 for a long time, so I just like the look. I paid $550 for mine on the used rack, but I believe it had never been fired.

Thanks, Freddie

 

[Lt. B]

Id say chokes may be the issue. Ive been doing some research and the general consensus seems to be that factory chokes arent worth picking out of the trash. Im going to try some trulocks.

 

[Schutzen]

Pattern

Several very good suggestions have been posted. The best of which was change choke tubes. some additional items are:

> Verify the barrel does not have a slight bow in it (very unlikely)
> change shot sizes -my 870 dearly loves 8's; but my 11-87 likes 7.5's
> clean the barrel and make sure you do not have plastic built up in the
barrel
> you might consider having the forcing cone lenghtened - better pattern

 

[Virginian]

I have shot a ton of patterns with all kinds of tubes, and I cannot determine any difference in performance between a RemChoke tube and the latest Gee-Whizz-Long-Range-Recoil-Reducing-Super-Extended-Goose-Mauler. or whatever. Same with Browning choke tubes - they work fine. The difference between true choke constriction (not the label) and bore diameter is the telling information.
I have heard of off-center cut barrels and whacko tubes, but i haven't seen any bad tubes so far. I saw a Browning barrel that was bored about 0.030" off center, but it was concentric and patterned fine.