For many years the only shotguns I had were Remington 870's. They served me well for any purpose I chose to task them with, from rabbits to
Geese and Turkeys, trap and skeet. I was envious of the Remington 1100, but it was just a bit outside of my price range. Finally I came across a used 1100 12 gauge, but it was manufactured back when they came with one barrel and one choke. Unfortunately this one had a modified barrel, which for my type of hunting at the time was not acceptable. I sent the barrel off to America's Gunsmiths, who at the time were in Kenosha and a part of Gander Mountain. With the demise of Gander Mountain they are now independent and in Burlington, WI. They installed screw in tubes in the barrel which turned the shotgun from mediocre into a good shotgun and a great turkey gun, however it was still chambered for 2 3/4 inch shells. With the move to 3 inch and the Remington 11/87 with screw in chokes made a great shotgun even better. Shooting Federal Black Cloud 3 inch #4 steel shells, ducks, and geese started to fall from the skies in limit filling numbers. The steel #4's are equally deadly on Turkeys which have all been 1 shot, 1 turkey with the longest turkey taken at 50 + yards this last spring. I also shot my first straight 25 shooting trap. I have tried others, Browning A5 and Benelli Montefeltro but keep coming back to the 11/87. I was glad that with Remington's comeback that they re-introduced the 1100 and 11/87 while dropping some of the newer and sadly inferior shotgun designs of the old Remington company. Currently I only have two shotguns, an 1100 20 ga with a skeet barrel and the 11/87. Those two serve all of my shotgun needs. It's hard to improve on perfection.
