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DG45 · October 5, 2009, 01:24 PM

Yeah, "fragile" is not a word that you would normally associate with a Model 11 Remington shotgun. Pick one up sometime and you'll see. They are about as sturdy and tough and rock-solid reliable as any moderately priced shotgun has ever been, anywhere. The Remington Model 11 was THE American semi-auto shotgun of the first half of the Twentieth Century and my understanding is that the main reason that they stopped manufacturing them after WWII was that it became impossible to continue producing that high quality a gun for the prices that its moderate income American market demanded. (I've read or heard that there was a lot of hand-fitting involved in producing Model 11's that was eliminated in its' successor, the Remington Model 11-48.)

October 5, 2009, 01:24 PM	#8
DG45 Senior Member Join Date: January 5, 2009 Posts: 904	Yeah, "fragile" is not a word that you would normally associate with a Model 11 Remington shotgun. Pick one up sometime and you'll see. They are about as sturdy and tough and rock-solid reliable as any moderately priced shotgun has ever been, anywhere. The Remington Model 11 was THE American semi-auto shotgun of the first half of the Twentieth Century and my understanding is that the main reason that they stopped manufacturing them after WWII was that it became impossible to continue producing that high quality a gun for the prices that its moderate income American market demanded. (I've read or heard that there was a lot of hand-fitting involved in producing Model 11's that was eliminated in its' successor, the Remington Model 11-48.)