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I'm working on an 1100 that a friend recently purchased at a gun show. It had a problem of the bolt not going fully into battery about 10 percent of the time. After doing the usual strip and clean I've discovered two issues. One, the action spring is short by an inch. New spring placed on order today. Issue two is harder to fix. The magazine tube doesn't have the usual plug to limit capacity, instead, it uses what I can only describe as a crimp/groove on the tube to permantly limit capacity to two. The negative here is that because of this groove, the tube seems to swell about .010" greater than the rest of the tube resulting in a huge friction spot when cycling. My question is, how to reduce/remove the bulge without damaging the tube or removing metal? Apparently this method of permantly reducing the capacity is common on guns sent to England as their laws mandate a permanent method, not a removable plug. Any thoughts?
 
Slide a tight brass dowel in the tube and peen the tube with a brass hammer . That spring must have been cut or incorrectly replaced to be an inch short.
 
f780 said:
Great idea with the dowel. The spring issue is very common with these apparently. They get tired with age and use.
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I have 3 1100's and never had a problem , 1 is from the 60's. Been shooting them for a very long time. I did have another that was a completion trap gun before I bought it. It had many tens of thousands of shells thru it, until it finaly was so worn it wasn't worth fixing. Just about every moving part was like it had been filed to half thickness,
 
No doubt the spring was still functioning, but I'm sure the bolt would be slamming the rear of the receiver with excess force. At any rate, for $6.77, it's getting a new one.
 
I would brag about my early '70's 1100 Magnum's ability to cycle light loads and 2 3/4" steel loads. Finally took it apart for a thorough cleaning and inspection. No damage to the buffer but the action spring was 1.5" shorter than the replacement from Wolff gun springs. Now it cycles HEAVY 2 3/4" loads and 3" loads but is a no go on the 2 3/4" light target loads. Luckily I did not shoot 3" magnum lead loads with that compressed spring I am sure I would have worn something out prematurely. Surprisingly the gun was very clean when I took it apart.

Darryl
 
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