Just got a 1963 1100 from the original owner. May have never been fired. Five Digit Serial plus "V" (2 3/4 shells). Barrel matches receiver serial (Code EK = Oct 1963). Beautiful.
I have a pair of 1100s. One I bought new in 1978. That one is still in very nice shape. The other I bought damaged for next to nothing. It had had something heavy dropped on it. Stock was broken, forend cracked, and it had a dent in the barrel. But other than that it was in decent shape. I put a synthetic stock/forend on it and cut the barrel to about 20 inch which got rid of the dent. It became my home defense shotgun.
et al. is an abbreviation of "et alia" which is Latin for "and others". (Yes. I passed the NY Regents exam in Latin.) I have an 1100 manufactured in the early '80's. It is a marvelous gun, accurate, reliable, and very soft shooting. I put a recoil pad on it and have never had a bruise post trap, skeet, or SC shooting (which I unfortunately do not get to do often). Shot a Krieghoff at the Homestead in VA, and while it was a fine O/U, I'll take the 1100 every time. The video was, as usual, well done and informative. I am impressed by your skill at Trap. You seem to be dialed in with that 1100.
Thanks for the kind words......yeah, it feels real good. No 25 yet but a few 24’s. Stay tuned.....there’s a Model 58 video on the way! The comparison will surely interest you!
I had a opportunity to keep one of those 1100 a Winchester 30-30 and a little 25 acp. The gentleman I was storing them for told me to just keep them. And I simply couldn’t do it the second he told me to keep them. I made it a point to bundle them up in blankets and get them all back to him. To this day idk what happened to my good friend Jerry. But I hope he didn’t sell those pieces. Because I sure would like to have em in my collection now that I’m in my forever home.
@@MilsurpGaragemaybe some day eventually. They are definitely a good gun in my opinion. I been trying to save my pennies for a S&W no dash 586 to go next to it’s brother from a different mother. When a guy has taste in firearms like I do the collecting aspect of the second amendment tends to get expensive. Lol
Thanks for sharing. Been enjoying the Sportsman 58 stuff also.
Thanks! Appreciate it.
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Just got a 1963 1100 from the original owner. May have never been fired. Five Digit Serial plus "V" (2 3/4 shells). Barrel matches receiver serial (Code EK = Oct 1963). Beautiful.
That's a first year model. Nice!
I can tell you brother 1100 in 410ga is very wonderful!
Missed out on one of those several times. One day....
I love it, it looks a lot like my Smith and Wesson model 1000. Although they’re totally different internals from what I recall they look very similar.
I have a pair of 1100s. One I bought new in 1978. That one is still in very nice shape.
The other I bought damaged for next to nothing. It had had something heavy dropped on it. Stock was broken, forend cracked, and it had a dent in the barrel. But other than that it was in decent shape.
I put a synthetic stock/forend on it and cut the barrel to about 20 inch which got rid of the dent. It became my home defense shotgun.
Nice!
Great gun, and as usual very interesting video.
Thanks!
et al. is an abbreviation of "et alia" which is Latin for "and others". (Yes. I passed the NY Regents exam in Latin.)
I have an 1100 manufactured in the early '80's. It is a marvelous gun, accurate, reliable, and very soft shooting. I put a recoil pad on it and have never had a bruise post trap, skeet, or SC shooting (which I unfortunately do not get to do often). Shot a Krieghoff at the Homestead in VA, and while it was a fine O/U, I'll take the 1100 every time.
The video was, as usual, well done and informative. I am impressed by your skill at Trap. You seem to be dialed in with that 1100.
Thanks for the kind words......yeah, it feels real good. No 25 yet but a few 24’s. Stay tuned.....there’s a Model 58 video on the way! The comparison will surely interest you!
Nice review! We got to go trap shooting, one of these days. Or meet at the VFW for Friday happy hour. My knee is improving!
Better bring your A game.......
Very Interesting Design and Shotgun I Would Like to Aquire One Someday 1100 😊😀
Recently learned about the design progression making it even MORE interesting! Stay tuned!
The bolt locks into the top of the barrel extension, not the receiver.
True
Yeah, dropped that in the video description when posting but that never saves you!
I had a opportunity to keep one of those 1100 a Winchester 30-30 and a little 25 acp. The gentleman I was storing them for told me to just keep them. And I simply couldn’t do it the second he told me to keep them. I made it a point to bundle them up in blankets and get them all back to him. To this day idk what happened to my good friend Jerry. But I hope he didn’t sell those pieces. Because I sure would like to have em in my collection now that I’m in my forever home.
Why not just buy them?
@@MilsurpGaragemaybe some day eventually. They are definitely a good gun in my opinion. I been trying to save my pennies for a S&W no dash 586 to go next to it’s brother from a different mother. When a guy has taste in firearms like I do the collecting aspect of the second amendment tends to get expensive. Lol