Dads old shotgun

[okielectrician]

My favorite shotgun of all is the one I got from my dad who is 80 now and he got it when he was young.
Shot a lot of rabbits,quail,and a boat load of skeet with it.
It is a remington model 11 in a 16 ga but was built on a browning patten.
Does anybody have any info on these.

[Swampman]

http://www.remington.com/library/history/firearm_models/shotguns/model_11.asp

[okielectrician]

Thank-you Swampman

[sniperVLS]

My cousin has one but we need to strip it down because it doesn't cycle very well. Could be an o-ring problem but I have no idea the inner workings of it. Can't think of a better way to learn but to try and tear it down. Could cause more problems but here's hoping it doesn't........

It is MINT by the way, it was his grandfathers on his moms side, he had a large inventory of Remmys and when he passed on the collection got handed down and divied up. My other cousin received the first double barrel Remmy made in the late 1880's I believe it was. I tried buying it for a couple hundred $$ but was scoffed at lol.

[Graybeard]

On the Browning patent guns like the Remington M11 and Browning A5 which are not by the way gas operated like the newer semiauto guns the placement of rings is critical. You must place them one way to work with heavy loads and a different way to work with lighter loads.

I'm not familiar enough with them to explain the difference but most likely that's what you need to do is to change them from how they are to the correct position for the loads you are using.

[Hank08]

On that M11 if you take off the forend you'll find 3 rings between the barrel and the recoil spring (no O rings) brass friction piece, steel friction spring and a steel friction ring.  For light loads the friction ring isn't needed so it's stored at the bottom under the recoil spring.  For heavy loads it sits on top of the spring with the concave part up so the brass friction piece sits in it and on firing it squeezes the brass ring tightly onto the mag tube slowing down the
recoiling barrel.  I have my fathers 12 ga.  I think he bought it the yr. I was born, I grew up getting beat black and blue by that gun.  I still have it, still shoots good, still kicks.
H08

[35Rem]

Go here for a copy of the Browning Auto-5 light manual. It will tell you about the friction rings and their proper location. It has been suggested, and it seems like good advice, to set the gun on the "heavy" setting and see if it will cycle "light" loads.
http://www.browning.com/customerservice/ownersmanuals/index.asp