eastbank
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remington 1100 and a browning A-5 picked up.
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Armored farmer
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Pretty good looking firewood on thr handle of that 1100.
Virginian
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Blued steel and walnut, like God intended. You have good taste. 
entropy
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Nice lookin' autos! 
Nice finds, pretty guns. Saw a decent 870 TB at a gun show today, someone put a 26" IC barrel on it, $700 with quite a few dings, dents, and scratches. Not for me.
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eastbank
Some fine looking long guns (as in long barreled shotguns), you've got there! Some nice looking wood on that Remington 1100 too!
Some fine looking long guns (as in long barreled shotguns), you've got there! Some nice looking wood on that Remington 1100 too!
Rich Goldsmith
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2 great finds enjoy....
Riomouse911
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Pretty! I traded a friend a Win 20 gauge Ranger shotgun and 250 bucks for an 1100 Trap model that has great wood, but a repaired fore end (it started to split). He needed a 20 for his daughter, and he thought the trap model would work when he bought that gun from a friend of his. It was waaaay to big and heavy for her to lug in the mountains after quail all day. I made out on the financial end I guess, but we both got guns that we could use in the deal.
Does yours have "TRAP" after the 1100 on the side?
Does yours have "TRAP" after the 1100 on the side?
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eastbank
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no, its not marked trap. the barrel is marked trap and has the shell deflector pin. I don,t know when the trap-34" barrel was added, they were sold in the 70,s I think by Remington as a add on. my browning BT 100 has a 34" barrel, but the Remington 1100 with the 34" barrel on it seems much longer. eastbank.
Panzerschwein
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I love the 1100s, even the new ones. I have a new tactical model and it has been totally reliable in many hundreds of rounds of everything from low brass skeets to high brass buckshot and slug. Soaks up recoil beautifully too.
Riomouse911
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Cool. After your post I ran out to the safe and took a peek at the 1100 trap.
As I recalled it has TRAP on the receiver, the 34" VR barrel with the ivory-colored front and small gold mid bead, and a Monte Carlo stock made of fancy walnut.
I forgot how heavy this gun is compared to the other 1100s in there! But I do admit it swings as smooth as glass, and with all that weight out there once I get the swing started on a crossing bird I have no problem with my follow through
. Have fun with your new shotgun!
If1HitU
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Sweet looking Shotgun.
expat_alaska
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I have always been an 870 fan and I would have grabbed that TB in a heartbeat. Remington doesn't market wood like that grade these days, and it is a great old Wingmaster to boot. One can always find a 30" VR FC trap barrel, refinish the wood (IIRC the TB grade did not have the plastic finish but rather an oil finish), and a good cold blue can work wonders on metal scratches. An old Wingmaster in that grade is precious.
In '69-'70 I worked at Roberts Shooting Park in Elkhorn NE setting/pulling trap/skeet before enlistment in the USAF. My 870 had a drop at the heel of 2-1/2 " at the heel, about what a TB stock had with a 2-7/8" or 3" drop with the Monte Carlo hump without a cheek-piece. It allowed me to see the entire top surface of the vent rib. I shot skeet.
Kudu, that would have been a good gun if mechanically sound.
Jim
When I picked it up, it looked and felt as if it had been well used, probably over the 100k mark, which would still be only maybe half life for it. Wasn't a steal by any means I didn't think.
expat_alaska
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I hear you, but with that supposed amount of rounds through it, it was probably slicker than owl crap on a greased doorknob. That is a good thing if, as I previously stated, it is mechanically sound. I have had 870 guns since 1969 and have never owned a better shotgun and have had to replace the left shell stop on one of them back in the day. They were all Wingmasters.
I guess one needs to decide what is valuable and what is not within one's own perspective. It may be a bit high in price but I think it is about what one loves.
I think you made a good call but I probably would have made a bad call based upon the heart and history.
We are all different animals.
Jim
Well expat, with about 8 or 9 other 870's in the safe, all but one are Wingmasters, I figured I could turn that one down. Might of been nice to have a trap model, but my trap gun is a M12.
expat_alaska
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Kudu, I understand fully. That is a beautiful Model 12 trap! I am curious about the pistol grip cap. Gorgeous wood, sir!
My Dad had a 1932 year-of-manufacture Model 12 field grade 16 gauge 28" FC. I helped him refinish it in the basement in 1970, with the help of Herter's Belgian Blue and a birds-eye maple buttstock/fore-end from Bishop. I have no pics. Beautiful gun. I was home on a one week leave (I was 19) from the USAF in 1972 to Nebraska and the longest crossing shot I ever made on a pheasant was with that gun at 65 paces and many feathers flew. The "old" farmers who owned the land we were hunting were "blockers" at the road, and when they looked at the bird they declared that it was so shot up that it was not fit to eat. I picked shot (#7-1/2) out of it for a long while before my mother would roast it.
I love 870 Wingmasters but that gun was lighter to carry and faster to swing. He died 7 years ago and my mother-in-law got it, and I have no idea what became of it. Sad.
I digress. Beautiful Model 12, sir!
Jim
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