Remington 11-87 ----- good or bad

What do you think of the Remington 11-87

  • No, this is not a good auto-loader

    Votes: 7 17.1%

  • Yes it is an overall good auto-loader

    Votes: 34 82.9%
  • Total voters
    41
Hi

My two cents

At the end on November I purchased a Browning gold Upland. Awesome gun! Quality manufacturing and assembly, beautiful tiger stripe walnut stock and forearm. Shoots great, so far. Gas system is easy to clean.

Everybody that has handled it has been impressed.

Golds do cost more then 11-87s, but are less then the Italian guns.

If you plan on buying just one shotgun that will work good when shooting it and look good when you are not:D Then consider the Browning golds

Sticker
 
As previously stated, you may wish to check out the Baikal MP153 in synthetic - this firearm can be abused but won't compromise on performance.

Never been fan to semi-autos......but the Russian shotgun will get my vote as a harsh weather (or any weather for that matter) hunting tool.

Recently, purchased a used Gold Hunter in 20ga (very nice and smooth), however, haven't had an opportunity to shoot that so far.
 
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black_bear said:
11-87's are the way to go, you can take them through the worst hunting conditions and drag them through mud and snow and they'll still keep firing, they are probably the most reliable autoloaders on the market today, and those stoegers also work pretty well, but if I gave anyone 1 piece of advice, DONT buy a beretta! They are pieces of sh!t and they jam every second shot, they kick like a mule, and did I mention the jamming? Not to mention all those missfires from the firing pin hitting light or all of the missfeeds caused by the crappy sh!t a$$ quality of those pieces of garbage-the only use for them is as a paddle-actually, I wouldn't even use it for that! They are overall the crappiest pieces of sh!t that you can waste your money on.....
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I wouldn't take any of this nonsense seriously. This guy is obviously trying to make himself feel better that he couldn't afford a beretta. The 11-87 is the last autoloader I would buy of the bunch. You would be much better served with a beretta or benelli. If that is out of your budget range, look at the browning gold series and the winchester super x2. The x2 is a good gun and can be found for cheap now with the newer x3 coming out. If these are also out of your price range, the stoeger 2000 has had some good reviews for a gun as cheap as it is. Best of luck.
 
DARKSTANG said:
I agree.Sometimes it is a guy thing to get the most powerful thing goin' and we pay for it in pain!!I heard a story about a guy who took the IPSC Blackbadge with a Desert Eagle!!!Double tap hell!!
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OMG, was it 50? That'd be fun for IPSC...how much are mags for one of those?
 
Bought a new one, jammed most of the time. I was given another new one, it shot 1 foot to the right at 40yds. Remington fixed it and I sold it. NEVER AGAIN.
 
Hey Troyski2, I was dead serious every beretta I have seen at the skeet or trap clubs that I've been at have problems, especially the autoloaders-I have never seen a beretta autoloader that hasn't jammed on the 2nd or 3rd shot- and I'm talking a bout brand-new $3000 and $4000 guns like the teknys, in my opinion berettas are the sh!ttiest guns ever, I wouldn't be caught dead with one of those sh!ts. From experience, I've never seen or even heard of an 11-87 or 1100 jamming, they are hard to beat for quality. And I'm dead serious-if you buy a beretta you'll be very unsatisfied with the quality so save yourself some trouble and buy a quality gun, a remington, browning, or winchster, stoeger, or if you have the money to waste on a beretta go for a benelli instead. Any of those should serve you well whether in the duck blind or on the skeet field, so if you're a serious waterfowler you should take a good long look at the 11-87.
 
I have a lefty 1100 I bought new in 1985, still has the o-ring it came with and has yet to fail to feed or fire with any ammo I ever fed it.

Brian
 
black_bear said:
Hey Troyski2, I was dead serious every beretta I have seen at the skeet or trap clubs that I've been at have problems, especially the autoloaders-I have never seen a beretta autoloader that hasn't jammed on the 2nd or 3rd shot- and I'm talking a bout brand-new $3000 and $4000 guns like the teknys, in my opinion berettas are the sh!ttiest guns ever, I wouldn't be caught dead with one of those sh!ts. From experience, I've never seen or even heard of an 11-87 or 1100 jamming, they are hard to beat for quality. And I'm dead serious-if you buy a beretta you'll be very unsatisfied with the quality so save yourself some trouble and buy a quality gun, a remington, browning, or winchster, stoeger, or if you have the money to waste on a beretta go for a benelli instead. Any of those should serve you well whether in the duck blind or on the skeet field, so if you're a serious waterfowler you should take a good long look at the 11-87.
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First of all, they aren't $3000-$4000. Most expensive 391 tops off under $2000. An entry level Al391 Urika can be had without all the bells and whistles for $1300. Secondly, I've never had a problem with mine, nor have I met anyone who had a problem with theirs. Which is more than I can say for the 11-87. There is a definate reason why the Berettas are more expensive than Remingtons. They are better than Remingtons in every which way. No doubt about it.
 
I purchased an older hardly used (darn near mint) used 1100 28" vent rib gun about 8 months ago. I am partial to pump guns (win 1897 and 870's) so I was rather hesitant to buy a self shucker, but for $200 it was a cheap gamble. Well I have put approximately 2000 rounds through it from 1 oz. trap loads all the way up to 1 1/2 oz Bismuth and have yet to have a jam. The only complaint I have is the extra time spent cleaning to ensure it remains reliable. Darn near the best $200 I have ever spent.
 
IMHO, if I am going to own another autoloader (doubtful) it will be a vintage Auto-5. The autoloader was perfected by JMB and has been regressing ever since IMHO.

Realistically though, if I need a REALLLLLY fast follow-up shot, I'll get a sidelock or high-end boxlock double from a reputable maker. Simple = less likely to jam and easier to maintain.
 
troyski2 said:
I wouldn't take any of this nonsense seriously. This guy is obviously trying to make himself feel better that he couldn't afford a beretta.
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Sound like a guy trying to justify why he spent so much on his Beretta and has yet to see a cheap old remington jam in real life.........


In reality I doubt either of these guys has ever seen a semi-auto 12ga let alone seen one actually jam.

Take a look around a clays field and you will find all kinds of semi's (1100/11-87/391/golds/x2 etc...) that run perfectly.
 
You must be saying that they're better to make yourself feel good about wasting $2000.00 that you could have used to buy a singleshot, which in my opinion would be better than a beretta-oh, I forgot, beretta also makes single shots! Atleast that's what it seems with most of thier jam-o-matic so-called "autoloaders". The only good beretta-actually, never mind, there is no such thing as a good beretta! Instead of trying to make yourself feel better about wasting your money on a piece of sh!t buy a decent quality gun. By the way I could've easily bought a beretta but after seeing so many jam and missfeed at the trap&skeet club, I decided I would buy something that would last and not break in the middle of my waterfowl hunting, that's why I went with time-proven remington and will always stick to them, I've never seen one fail in the field and I doubt I ever will..........
 
I'm not trying to justify anything. A beretta is only $400 more than an 11-87. Not enough to get too excited over. I don't know what experience either of you naysayers have with berettas, but mine has never jammed nor have I seen one jam. I have seen remingtons do such things however. So if a beretta is "sh!t' then there must be an even worse term with even more expletives to describe the 11-87.
 
I forked out for an 1187 SPS. Worst gun I ever owned. It didn't like any 2 3/4 shell, even premium brands, and the damn thing would only shoot about 10 rounds, even after being freshly cleaned, before the action started slowing down, especially in the cold Alberta winters. You wouldn't beleive how many geese I had to pass up because the damn thing was always in pieces in the blind. Traded it at a big loss and bought a Nova. It's twice the gun the 1187 ever was.
 
Remington has a new line of 1100 shotgun out. They have revised them extensively. Go to the website and check it out.
 
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