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This is just an opinion post because I am bored and it is deep in winter. What is your most comfortable and easy to shoot Remington gas operated semi automatic shotgun. I have owned and used Remington model 878, model 58 and model 1100. For me I find the 58 the easiest to hit targets with (both crows, clays and waterfowl). I know some fellows are going to mention about the adjustable gas settings on the magazine cap but I am really only asking about the way they fit.
 
My Remington 1100 LC 20 gauge is such a nice shooting gun .
It is almost impossible to miss grouse :)
I like the 1100 so much right now that when a 28 popped up I immediately bought it and am chomping at the bit for Grouse Season 2024 to arrive.
6 and 3/4 months to go :)
Good Shooting and a full dinner pot.
Rob
 
All 3 have the same reciever for the most part the 1100 hundreds is the heaviest by far so that will make the swing and feel a bit different
I hunted with a 58 nice handling gun
 
Gerald said:
This is just an opinion post because I am bored and it is deep in winter. What is your most comfortable and easy to shoot Remington gas operated semi automatic shotgun. I have owned and used Remington model 878, model 58 and model 1100. For me I find the 58 the easiest to hit targets with (both crows, clays and waterfowl). I know some fellows are going to mention about the adjustable gas settings on the magazine cap but I am really only asking about the way they fit.
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What you are saying has nothing to do with the model it has to do with gun fit. Obviously your 58 fits you better if you shoot it better than the others...simple as that.
 
I shoot an 1100, 1148 and a Sportsman 58. I also shoot the 58 the best. I compared and found the 58 fore stock is slimmer and less deep than the 1100. That may make the difference. All of mine are in 16 gauge. Stock dimensions are virtually identical across all models mentioned.
Darryl
 
I have a few of the 1148 they clunk and bang but are fun to shoot for sure.The 1100 are smooth as silk compared to them but heck clunk and bang is what I grew up on
 
I have owned and shot the 58, 878, 1100 large frame in 12 and 20 ga as well as the small frame in 20, 28 and 410. Also the 1187. I put thousands of rounds through all 4 gauges of skeet guns and some trap over the past 50 years. Loved the feel and balance of the 58 but it was a pain to keep clean and reliable, and not available in 3" . It was also available in 20 ga and was popular for skeet and upland birds. 1100s are easy to keep clean and are very reliable with few breakdowns, as are the 1187 s, which come in 3" as standard issue, except for the Sporting version. Parts are readily available for the 1100 and 1187 too. My ideal would be an 1187 with the 58 fore end for overall heft and balance but for now I will settle for the 1187 every time if you want to hunt with it or the 1100 if for clays only.
 
Ol' Flinter said:
I have owned and shot the 58, 878, 1100 large frame in 12 and 20 ga as well as the small frame in 20, 28 and 410. Also the 1187. I put thousands of rounds through all 4 gauges of skeet guns and some trap over the past 50 years. Loved the feel and balance of the 58 but it was a pain to keep clean and reliable, and not available in 3" . It was also available in 20 ga and was popular for skeet and upland birds. 1100s are easy to keep clean and are very reliable with few breakdowns, as are the 1187 s, which come in 3" as standard issue, except for the Sporting version. Parts are readily available for the 1100 and 1187 too. My ideal would be an 1187 with the 58 fore end for overall heft and balance but for now I will settle for the 1187 every time if you want to hunt with it or the 1100 if for clays only.
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My 58 is a 3 inch and is stamped MAGNUM on the underside of the receiver. I picked up a 2 3/4” magazine cap and a 26 inch skeet barrel and also use it that way when I wish.
 
Even though they were on their way to bankruptcy, the versamax was, is, and forever will be the softest shooting, most reliable gas operated semi auto shotgun ever built. Period. Everybody can chide in and say I'm wrong but I bet whatever you wanted that yours didn't see the use and abuse mine did for the 4 years I had it.

Duck hunters think they're hard on gear, mine spent 4 years on the trapline with me every day from October 15th till freeze up at the end of November (minus 2 weeks for deer season) it swam more than Jaques Cousteau in water, mud, peat bog; it was legitimately used as a emergency canoe paddle one day and still shot birds on the trip back to shore. It finished out it's last season on one workin piston cause the other one was seized up with peat bog and beaver s***. I had to heat it up and slam it out with a hammer and a punch.

Paid $1200 for it new, sold it for $200 when my son was born and regretted it ever since. Can't kill a versamax; I'm positive you could weld both pistons shut and it'd cycle off recoil alone.
 
trapoholic said:
Even though they were on their way to bankruptcy, the versamax was, is, and forever will be the softest shooting, most reliable gas operated semi auto shotgun ever built. Period. Everybody can chide in and say I'm wrong but I bet whatever you wanted that yours didn't see the use and abuse mine did for the 4 years I had it.

Duck hunters think they're hard on gear, mine spent 4 years on the trapline with me every day from October 15th till freeze up at the end of November (minus 2 weeks for deer season) it swam more than Jaques Cousteau in water, mud, peat bog; it was legitimately used as a emergency canoe paddle one day and still shot birds on the trip back to shore. It finished out it's last season on one workin piston cause the other one was seized up with peat bog and beaver s***. I had to heat it up and slam it out with a hammer and a punch.

Paid $1200 for it new, sold it for $200 when my son was born and regretted it ever since. Can't kill a versamax; I'm positive you could weld both pistons shut and it'd cycle off recoil alone.
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I won't argue reliability, but the softest shooting shotgun is the A400 with kickoff, I didn't keep either of my A400s because they just don't fit me properly, but they were definitely the softest shooting shotguns that I have ever fired. Beretta definitely has a winner with the Kickoff.
 
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