This Old Shotgun...

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So I get a phone call today and a friend of mine tells me his shotgun isn't working. He tells me that it's a semi auto, but that's all he says, so I think to myself, "self, this will be an easy $40 for 15 minutes cleaning his gas ports out"...boy was I wrong. He brought me an old Remington 1100



I take the shotgun and attempt to feed some shells into it. the elevator doesn't even have room to bring the round up. Ok, thats a problem. The receiver doesn't fully extract, another problem. There isn't enough room with the action open to chamber a round by hand, big problem.



Here's his Remington



First things first, I look at the buttstocks attachment, it looks as though someone put a 10" threaded rod into the receiver to attach the butt stock, then there's a nut on the rod all the way on the bottom. I'm thinking I'll double-nut the rod and take it out. After looking for nuts, I only had 1, so I welded the nut on the rod.



Here's the rod sticking out the butt stock, that was flush with the recoil pad.



Here's the nut I threaded on the rod



The nut is now welded



After removing the rod with a wrench

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continued...

So after removing the butt stock, I check the action, works perfectly now, just like it's supposed to. I even run a few shells through it, they feed, chamber, and extract...wonderful. Now what to do, this gun needs a stock on it to prevent it from becoming a "felonious assault weapon". Here's a picture of the broken stern of the receiver, where the threads end is where the action bars start, therefore it needs to be extended to be usable at all. Not a very good picture, but the end is neither true, straight, or intact, it looks like a beaver chewed on it...



My next job on this will be to true the stern of the receiver, then weld on a piece of pipe threaded to match it, will post pictures and add to this story as I get to it. Thanks for reading "This Old Shotgun", and remember, when you break stuff that you don't think is important, sometime it is