Remington Model 11

[panchovillas]

Bought this baby this past weekend at the Fresno Sportsman Club swap meet which was pretty awesome if you folks did not make it. The shotgun is in great ship internally and very clean. Is the choke standard to this gun or is it an add on. Also do you folks who know about these fine old guns, what can you do to them to make them better.

[Res]

Looks nice!
Try searching in the Curio & Relic section as well. There are a lot of threads on them

here is mine; In one of it's stages.

[panchovillas]

thanks

[panchovillas]

could not find nothing on the subject!!! I will keep looking and need to know if the threaded barrel and choke are original to this shotgun.

[BigDogatPlay]

Remington's Model 11 is the Browning Auto 5 design made under license by Remington. Produced from 1905-1948, about 850,000 units made. These are very good shooters and all will have a 2 3/4 inch chamber, no 3 inch magnums on these guns. I owned one for a while that was made in 1912 and it was a great shooting gun, my cousin has it now and it's still going strong.

It's a recoil operated gun, there are friction rings on the magazine tube that can be flipped around to match the power level of the shell you are firing. Low base target shells the rings have one configuration, more powerful game loads they have another. Shooter high power loads on the low power configuration could eventually lead to damage, while shooting low power loads on the high power configuration will cause the gun to not fully cycle. I would recommend visiting browning.com and downloading the owners manual for the Auto 5 (the same gun, literally) so that you can verify the position of the friction rings. People who don't know the purpose of the rings will sometimes put them on out of sequence and that can lead to problems.

The adjustable choke is almost certainly not factory. The 11 with my cousin has a huge Cutts Compensator with screw in external choke tubes. The unit you have looks like an older Poly-Choke and it is probably silver soldered on. It would not be easy to take off. There should be markings on it to tell you who made it and where the choke settings are.

Very cool old gun. Congratulations and enjoy it.

[Divernhunter]

The barrel was modified with a Poly-Choke. I had one installed on a rem 870 many years ago. I have an original mil surplus one. I used one with a skeet choke wthen I eas a kid and it was killer on birds(quail etc) up close.

[panchovillas]

Thanks for the info, downloaded the pdf on the A5 and seen how to set the rings so now what is considered low and high loads. I bought Remington 2 3/4 1330 fps 1 1/4 oz shot #7 1/2 pheasant loads. Also the choke just screws right off and not welded on. the choke is by lyman choke 12g thats it.

[BigDogatPlay]

1330 fps would be a somewhat heavy load and I would consider the heavy load ring configuration for that. Bulk bird shot will run 1200 fps + / -, that or slower would be a light load setting.

Good news that the choke is just threaded on. I most commonly encounter them silver soldered in place which was why I mentioned it. You might consider spending $5 on a small tube of choke tube grease, cleaning and then lubing up those threads a bit. It will help keep the external choke from "walking off" while firing and also keep it from seizing up on the threads.

[panchovillas]

Thanks and will do that to the threads. I noticed a little rust when I took the choke off.

[saki302]

I run mine in the heavy load configuration always. Works fine with standard field or buckshot loads.

I would avoid the lighter settings unless your 11 is short cycling.

-Dave

[panchovillas]

Can you send me a pic of how you have it set up because the ring on the A-5 looks allot bigger than the ring on my 11. I have it set up with the concave facing up on top of the spring and then the tension ring on top of that, is that correct?

[Shrubmaster]

Hopefully you checked the bolt, these puppies cycle so fast that they can crack the bolt (also related to improper ring setting)