2010 Shotgun News Year Resulution Broken

[popplecop]

No, it takes a Bikaal choke, try TrueLock chokes site the have them. And yes Skeet it's a 2 &9/16s chamber. It will stay original as I have plenty of 2.5" 16s.

[popplecop]

Well found a model 37 16 50s model, reblue with a 28" mod. plain barrel, brought that home. Last week found a 1950 Marlin Model 90 16 ga. 28" matted barrels and checkered stock and forend, Should hold me for the first half of the year. Also bought 2 Ruger LCP .380s, nice pocket handgun. Gave one to my son as his birthday is June 17th and he is a law enforcement officer.

[popplecop]

Found another 16, a Rem. 870 Express Youth Model 16 ga. of course. Should fit right in when taking a person of smaller stature shooting or hunting, sure have plenty of 16 ga. ammo.

[skeet]

A question on the new express guns in 16.. Did they use the 20 ga frame to make the new 16s or did they continue to use the 12 ga frame..I thunk I read they used the 20 ga but ..that's where I get in trouble..I thunk again..

[popplecop]

Skeet, you would have thought that Rem. would have been smart enough to do that when they reintroduced it, but no used a 12 ga. frame. I have a 870 16 ga. Skeet from 1952, built on the 12 ga. frame that is a beautiful shotgun and weighs in at 6.76 lbs. Will bet that this Express is heavier. One thing is I have a good supply of 870 12 ga. frame woodstocks available to me, so will come up with some combo for a knock around 16 or in the orginal configuration for a young person.

[popplecop]

Compared the new Rem. 870 Express Youth Model 16 with my 1952 870 16 Skeet. Remington should be embarrassed, Express has composite stock 23" tubed barrel vs Skeet from 52 with wood stock and 26" vr barrel bored skeet, at least a half lb. difference just in the barrel, soon as I set my scale up will give you an accurate weight. The 52 870 weighs in at 6.76 lbs. Don't get me wrong the Express am satisified with the express for what it will be used for, but can't believe Rem. could have screwed up so bad on the so called reintroduction of the 16.

[skeet]

Actually the whole line of guns that Remington has been making with screw chokes is a lot heavier..So much heavier in fact that the 11-87 has never felt like an 1100 despite the fact they are essentially the same...except for the bbl. Heavier to make it able to take screw in chokes.. Put an 1100 bbl on it and it feels about the same...and you can put an 1100 bbl on an 11-87 despite what Rem says. Have one right here next to the desk..yote gun ya understand. BB's work well on 'em out to bout 40-45 yds

[buckhunter]

I don't about that Skeet. I have a 11-87 LC (Light Contour) and it feels pretty much the same as a 1100. I can put a regular 11-87 barrel on it but have to change the wood forearm to a larger one to get it on. I do agree a lot of the others have heavy barrels on them and there is a differece.

[skeet]

Well the light contour is a bird of a different tweet..It does feel somewhat like the old 1100. Has a bit different balance point though Mine is heavier than the same length 1100 bbl too..5 oz...And then they don't make a 12 ga framed 20 ga anymore...sigh..I do have a few of them though.. And a friend in Md found me a standard weight 1100 20 ga factory Cutts compensator bbl not long ago..like new for 60 bucks.. Shoots good too. Supposedly the rarest 1100 is a 20 ga Standard weight(12 ga frame) Left hand slug gun..If original will have a Remington Pad and rifle sighted bbl. Only seen two in all my years. And I have had at least 2000 in my possession at one time or another. I just found an Ithaca M-37 skeet grade 16 ga with a Cutts on it yesterday..MIght even buy it..Price was OK for a skeet grade