I’m a push over for nice engraved guns.

[coues]

I like them all, pumps, autos, single barrels or SXS….. if they are engraved. Found this in a little mom and pop shop this week. Impossible to pass up. My wife came home early from work while I had it apart and wiping down in the kitchen. What’s that she asked? Ahh a new gun. Thought you were reducing your guns? Well I’m consolidating .
Remington model 11 F made in 1912
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[abner]

Very nicely done, it is easy to see why that came home with you.

[44whiskey]

wonderful find,proud for you

[MARSHFELLOW]

Good going........ what a nice "canvas" for engraving.
tjw

[Silvers]

A classic gun with super nice engraving. Thanks for posting.

Recent interest here and there in old Remington 11’s prompts me to post that anyone wanting to shoot one is well advised to check the fiber recoil buffer in the hump. It was riveted in place and often is deteriorated and crumbling apart. Check/replacement requires disassembly and then sophisticated techniques and an oversize rivet. Instruction was: be careful "not to drill through the receiver" for the new rivet.

That's not an issue with the Browning Auto 5 because it doesn't utilize a buffer. frank

[Researcher]

Part 90 and 91 the Fiber Cushion and Fiber Cushion Rivet first appear in the Model 11 parts list in the 1915-16 Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co. catalog.

[MARSHFELLOW]

Dave, where the hell do you come up with this stuff?????!!!!!
tjw

[Researcher]

Dave, where the hell do you come up with this stuff?????!!!!!
tjw

I had actually gone through that exercise before and upon Frank's post I remembered that the early guns didn't have the Fiber Cushion.

[coues]

Excellent thank you for this information. One item that I will not concern myself with.

[Fowlgunner]

Coues,

It is still worth a look to see it the gun had been retrofitted somewhere in it's 100+ years.


If it has the rivet and no buffer it could be aligned with the firing pin and will act as a hammer and detonate a live shell cycled by hand.

I have had one so equipped so I'm speaking from experience.

There should be a machined recess (Slot) in the forward side of the back of the receiver so as to not contact the firing pin while cycling.

Nice gun.

I believe I have seen it before, the only "Rabbit" gun I know of!

Will

[AZMike]

I've enjoyed Remington shotguns for a long time but circumstances (budget) has never let me enjoy an "F" grade. Last week I had a chance to do just that, the engraving, shading/shadows etc make an incredible rich effect. Phil said I could dance with the pretty girl at my ZZ Ring!
* *I knew that the Bird on the Rabbit (RT) side panel wasn't a Roadrunner!

[44whiskey]

welcome to Fox AZMike,that is one sweet one hole shotgun,Fred

[Stan Hillis]

I've enjoyed Remington shotguns for a long time but circumstances (budget) has never let me enjoy an "F" grade. Last week I had a chance to do just that, the engraving, shading/shadows etc make an incredible rich effect. Phil said I could dance with the pretty girl at my ZZ Ring!
* *I knew that the Bird on the Rabbit (RT) side panel wasn't a Roadrunner!

I know what it's like to dance with the prettiest girl there. Caroline is a head turner too, at any dance.



Well done Mike.

[44whiskey]

she is a beauty Stan, what are white jugs in road for,range markers? sure would like to see 410 you open season with sometime, regards Fred

[Stan Hillis]

Fred, those little white things are Flock A Flickas, by Mojo. They are a new twist on motorized dove decoys. It's just a little teardrop shaped piece of plastic painted grey on one side and white on the other. They spin, on and off, momentarily, to simulate doves feeding on the ground and fluttering their wings when landing or leaving. There's another one in the pic that was either spinning, or had the grey side toward the camera.

I have three .410s that I use for doves, a Dickinson 30" barreled S X S, a FAIR Iside Tartaruga Gold 30" barreled S X S, and a FAIR Verona 30" barreled O/U. The FAIR guns are Italian. The Dickinson is Turkish. Maybe I can remember to take a pic of all three together sometime.