My son wants to start clay shooting and I would like to find a nice 1100 or 1187 for him to start with. I’m located in Temple but will travel for a deal. Let me know what you have and have a great week.

If you get overwhelmed with offers, I’d like a similar option. I’m not at all trying to poach but have been keeping an eye open for similar

Just my opinion take it for what it’s worth but I shoot a lot of sporting clays but the best auto out there for clays is the Beretta A400 Xcel especially for new shooters and there is one on THF right now for a good price. Don’t get me wrong I love the Remington’s but in our experience if you shoot very much they just don’t stand up to the rounds always jamming and having to change the gas rings.

I have also shot clays and skeet for many years and couldn’t agree with you more about Beretta gas guns. However to see if he will enjoy the sport I really didn’t want to spend the price of a Beretta when the latter will do the job. Make sense?

True. I definitely see your point and if he does enjoy it then you upgrade and never anything wrong with having an extra shotgun in the safe. After all he who does with the most guns wins. Good luck with the shooting.

While I definitely agree the beretta is better at a lot of things (maintenance, function, its lighter like a lot lighter)
I would try and let him shoot both and see which shoulders better out of the box
As someone who owns several of each in multiple calibers and sizes (390,391,a400xcel, 1100, 1187, M2, M4, versamax, citoris, fabarms etc..) I have let plenty of people shoot them and obviously shot them all myself hunting, sporting clays, trap etc.. there are people who prefer them both ways , or can pick one up and handle it better than the other and it's about 50/50 on who prefers the rem/browning vs the beretta/benelli
Personally I can pick up the remington and just go without a second thought! While I don't want to give up any of them and I still love the beretta it takes me a few shots to adjust.. the line of sight vs cheek well is just different
I dont think any of them are particularly difficult to clean or assemble (aside from the benelli super sport style where the receiver is two pieces, which is also a fantastic shooter)
The benelli and beretta definitely go more round before needing any maintenance

12 or 20 ?

12,20,28,410. Mainly a 12 but open to all.

I have a real nice 1100 12 g 26" with a skeet barrel. Shoot me a Pm if interested

This. I started shooting 1100s/11-87s with Shotgun merit badge in Scouts. I got my 11-87 Premier when I was 13 for Christmas and probably put 10s of thousands if not 100s of thousands of rounds through her. She won me lots of money and other guns as my go-to for 25 years. I started having issues with her and tried a Benelli Vinci Super Sport fell in love with the feel and shot it well during the test drive. So I upgraded. I COULD. NOT. HIT. A. THING with the Vinci. I was a 95%+ shooter with the Remmy and dropped to sub 85% with the Vinci. I went through several others, Citori, Red Label, etc and finally, for whatever reason, found a cheap a$$ Stoeger Condor that I could shoot fairly well, but nothing that got me back up to where the 11-87 had me.

The bad thing is I took the 11-87 to a gunsmith that mangled it worse than it was and it has not cycled rounds properly since 2009. I finally found a gunsmith in Tennessee that is getting it fixed and I should have it back in July. I suppose I'm not one to give up on a firearm; can't wait to get back to shooting the Remmy.

I used to go toe to toe and bird for bird against shooters with multi-thousand dollar shotguns. I was "that kid with the Remmy" in college. Good luck on the hunt for his shotgun.

Lol almost same exact story as me
Started with 1100 and 870 in scouts
Got an 870 for Christmas when I was younger and an 1187 when I turned 13 lol
Still have both of them and both still shoot well

A buddy of mine's Dad was a big time skeet shooter in the 70s and 80s. I asked him what his favorite shotgun was, and he brought out a bone stock except for Pachmayr Recoil Pad Remington 1100 12 Gauge with a 26 inch Improved Cylinder barrel, and the shiny finish on the pistol grip and the middle of the forend was worn down to the wood.

I asked him how many rounds, and he said over 100,000. He said the secret to keeping them running was keeping them clean, changing out the O-Rings when they get worn, and replacing the buttstock spring and magazine spring every year. He said not changing the buttstock spring and magazine spring every year is the reason for reliability problems in 1100s and 11-87s.

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