11-87 super mag
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Jeepers I hate to hear that :sad: I had enough with problems from the last shotgun I got rid of. I Always have a back up. BPS shoots anything and always works. If the 11 87 gives me any problems it is gone. I guess I am going to have tro man up and spend some $$$ on a reliable semi that shoots 3.5" shells.
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GREAT Idea. :thumbsup:fishmasty said:
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Took it out for a test run,.... failure to feed 3 shell,.. I cleaned it up and took the 2 piece piston rings out of my 1100 and it functions fine.
First shot at a goose and a downed bird. I put the one piece in the 1100 and failure to feed 2 or 3 rd shell. I guess I need to get the 2 piece rings for an 1100???? .
First shot at a goose and a downed bird. I put the one piece in the 1100 and failure to feed 2 or 3 rd shell. I guess I need to get the 2 piece rings for an 1100???? .
Dont confuse the 11-87 for a better or improved 1100.............You troubles with the 11-87 have just started, trust me !!!!fishmasty said:Took it out for a test run,.... failure to feed 3 shell,.. I cleaned it up and took the 2 piece piston rings out of my 1100 and it functions fine.
First shot at a goose and a downed bird. I put the one piece in the 1100 and failure to feed 2 or 3 rd shell. I guess I need to get the 2 piece rings for an 1100???? .
I have a 3" 11-87 with Hasting barrels and Hasting chokes. I have got 100% patterns at 40 yds with RSI 75 a 1 3/16 oz load of steel 1's at 1550 fps. The 11-87 combo almost patterns as well as the 935. It appears you are smarter than your gun and know how to make things work. Good for you and good luck. Ned S the young snowed in 81 yr old dringing wine and eating Vermont sharp Chedder Cheese. Ned S
Have you notice this guy never makes a postive post he always criticising somone or something. Ned SALLDRAKES said:Dont confuse the 11-87 for a better or improved 1100.............You troubles with the 11-87 have just started, trust me !!!!fishmasty said:Took it out for a test run,.... failure to feed 3 shell,.. I cleaned it up and took the 2 piece piston rings out of my 1100 and it functions fine.
First shot at a goose and a downed bird. I put the one piece in the 1100 and failure to feed 2 or 3 rd shell. I guess I need to get the 2 piece rings for an 1100???? .
If the 935 patterns so well why put the Hastings barrel on it............. :huh:Ned S said:
As for your other response.Just when it concerns misstated information which you post plenty of every time you hit the send button !! As illustrated above AGAIN !!
So then you have a Hastings barrel on your 935 as stated above ? ?..........They do not make one for the 935, so again, inaccurate information. Sorry but this isnt the forum to be posting inaccurate information as you do weekly. How long before one of these mistakes cost someone their face ? ?Ned S said:
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I think Ned was sayin' his 11-87 is equipped with a Hastings barrel and chokes...and patterns almost as well as his 935.
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I hope your experience with the 1187 Super mag is better than mine.
Mine had the flat black finish and it rusted out of the box. On humid mornings, you could watch the thing rust in front of your eyes in the blind. Since it was a finish issue, Remington said it was due to poor maintenance and would not take care of it. I was appalled since I religiously cleaned this gun after every hunt, simply b/c the finish would rust in this manner. This was really the only issue I had with it in the first year, except that it wouldn't cycle lighter loads, but I somewhat expected that to be the case since its a 3 1/2" gas gun.
Eventually I started having more issues, had to replace the feed latch (tip sheered multiple times), and O-rings. I would suggest carrying a feed latch and O-Rings in your blind bag, as they aren't that difficult to swap out in the field and its annoying having your semi-auto turn into a single shot. Again this was annoying, but seemed fine since they were easy enough and cheap enough to repair myself. I would occasionally take it to a gun smith to have the feed latch crimped back in the gun, but it didn't seem to matter since it always rattled out.
Somewhere in my third season of use, I started having major issues. Every time I shot 3.5" shells out of it, the bolt would hang open and not cycle the next round into the chamber. Apparently I had to take it to a gun smith and he informed me the trigger assembly had gone bad. Apparently, the extra recoil from 3.5" shells had caused the parts in the trigger assembly to loosen up and since remington's action depends on the trigger assembly to be the mechanism to cycle the next round that was the issue. So I replaced that. The straw that broke the camels back was when the linkage, that bridges between the bolt and the recoil spring, broke. This really hacked me off since I was beading down on a green head at the time. At this point, my backup gun had more time in the field during this season than my primary, so I decided to get rid of it. I fixed it up, then went to a local retailer and traded it in for a 30-06.
I would like to think these issues were just mine, but b/c my brother and my cousin, who both had an 1187 3" version, was having similar issues and a few more issues as well, I feel that remington's guns have issues.
If you are looking for a reliable gun that shoot 3.5", I would look at Browning, Beretta, Winchester, or Benelli. The supermag may be chambered for 3.5", but it can't withstand the extra abuse from 3.5" shells. So if it can't withstand the abuse from 3.5" shells and it doesn't shoot 2 3/4" loads worth a damn, then what is the point of the gun other than to look rusty, out of the box, on a gun rack.
Mine had the flat black finish and it rusted out of the box. On humid mornings, you could watch the thing rust in front of your eyes in the blind. Since it was a finish issue, Remington said it was due to poor maintenance and would not take care of it. I was appalled since I religiously cleaned this gun after every hunt, simply b/c the finish would rust in this manner. This was really the only issue I had with it in the first year, except that it wouldn't cycle lighter loads, but I somewhat expected that to be the case since its a 3 1/2" gas gun.
Eventually I started having more issues, had to replace the feed latch (tip sheered multiple times), and O-rings. I would suggest carrying a feed latch and O-Rings in your blind bag, as they aren't that difficult to swap out in the field and its annoying having your semi-auto turn into a single shot. Again this was annoying, but seemed fine since they were easy enough and cheap enough to repair myself. I would occasionally take it to a gun smith to have the feed latch crimped back in the gun, but it didn't seem to matter since it always rattled out.
Somewhere in my third season of use, I started having major issues. Every time I shot 3.5" shells out of it, the bolt would hang open and not cycle the next round into the chamber. Apparently I had to take it to a gun smith and he informed me the trigger assembly had gone bad. Apparently, the extra recoil from 3.5" shells had caused the parts in the trigger assembly to loosen up and since remington's action depends on the trigger assembly to be the mechanism to cycle the next round that was the issue. So I replaced that. The straw that broke the camels back was when the linkage, that bridges between the bolt and the recoil spring, broke. This really hacked me off since I was beading down on a green head at the time. At this point, my backup gun had more time in the field during this season than my primary, so I decided to get rid of it. I fixed it up, then went to a local retailer and traded it in for a 30-06.
I would like to think these issues were just mine, but b/c my brother and my cousin, who both had an 1187 3" version, was having similar issues and a few more issues as well, I feel that remington's guns have issues.
If you are looking for a reliable gun that shoot 3.5", I would look at Browning, Beretta, Winchester, or Benelli. The supermag may be chambered for 3.5", but it can't withstand the extra abuse from 3.5" shells. So if it can't withstand the abuse from 3.5" shells and it doesn't shoot 2 3/4" loads worth a damn, then what is the point of the gun other than to look rusty, out of the box, on a gun rack.
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It sounds to me like he has a hastings barrel on his 1187, if you are here just to cause problems we have a solution for that. Please stop being critical of others or do it somewhere else. :fingerpt:ALLDRAKES said:
Yes, he (Ned) does have a Hastings (HWL) barrel as I sent it to him several years ago to try out on his 1100 and we later learned they will also work on the model 11-87 with the right forearm setup.waterfowlhunter said:
Alldrakes has caused problems for Ned (and many others) on EVERY FORUM he has inhabited with a steady stream of pejorative drivel. He cannot be reasoned with as his hatred of all things Swygard, Remington & Browning rivals the fanaticism of any Al Quaida jihadist. The equivalent of Cyber rigor mortis (bannishment) has so far proven to be the only reliable remedy although he has been known to sneak back under another alias/ISP in the past.
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