short barrel for Rem. 1100 - The Firearms Forum

carver · 01-22-2011, 12:24 PM

I need a little help guys, and gals. I want to put an 18" barrel on my 1100, and I want it to have rifle sights on it. I can't find one! I might be barking up the wrong tree, I don't know. The only thing I have found so far is a 21" barrel with a Rem-choke. I have to assume that the Rem-choke will screw out, and I can screw in an improved cylener, but am not sure. Any ideas?

wkd · 01-22-2011, 01:15 PM

What you have found is a slug bbl, that is the shortest that I am aware of with sights. the earlier version of the slug bbl came with a IC fixed choke. The Remchoke version is a lot more versatile, chokes are available from cyl to turkey as well as rifled. You could of course cut off a vent rib bbl and add sights to the rib, I would go for the 21 inch factory. 3 inches shouldn't make that much difference in handling.

JLA · 01-22-2011, 01:30 PM

I personally would order the tactical sights from brownells and silver solder them to my barrel and then re-finish. The easiest way to get what you are looking for myles, is to cut down a vent rib barrel to 18.5" and add tru-glo turkey sights to it, which is a standard 3 dot set-up with 2 green hi vis dots in the rear and one red hi vis up front...

carver · 01-22-2011, 02:43 PM

JLA, I have two barrels for this gun right now. It came with a 30" ribbed barrel that I won in a Ducks Unlimited raffel, and I have purchased a 28" barrel with three Rem-Chokes. If I buy the 21" barrel will I be able to remove the Rem-Choke, and screw in an Improved? If not I suppose I could cut down the 28" barrel to 18 1/2", and add sights.

Shooter45 · 01-22-2011, 03:01 PM

Carver, don't do anythig yet. I think I found you a barrel.

wkd · 01-22-2011, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by carver

JLA, I have two barrels for this gun right now. It came with a 30" ribbed barrel that I won in a Ducks Unlimited raffel, and I have purchased a 28" barrel with three Rem-Chokes. If I buy the 21" barrel will I be able to remove the Rem-Choke, and screw in an Improved? If not I suppose I could cut down the 28" barrel to 18 1/2", and add sights.

Chances are the tube in there is an imp cyl.

carver · 01-22-2011, 04:55 PM

Hadn't thought of that! I was thinking that this was a deer hunting barrel for shooting slugs, so I thought that the tube in it would be rifled! Maybe not! If it's an IC tube, then I have to ask why? Wouldn't it be an IC if it is only 21" for deer?

JLA · 01-22-2011, 06:46 PM

if its smoothbore and designed for rifled slugs it will have a IC choke, that is what is recommended for use with rifled slugs, if you wish to use sabot type slugs you will have to buy a rifled tube, and if you want to use buckshot get a turkey choke (extra full)

carver · 01-23-2011, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Shooter45

Carver, don't do anythig yet. I think I found you a barrel.

How's it looking on that barrel?

Oneida Steve · 01-23-2011, 03:42 PM

carver, Remington made a fixed choke barrel with adjustable sights for the 1100, but it was 21". I have one in my gun closet. The barrel doesn't have a choke marking but the "dime test" tells me it is Cylinder or IC. I've never seen an adjustable sight 1100 barrel in 18". I have seen 18" bead sight barrels.

The 21" rifle sight fixed choke versions are definitely out there.

carver · 01-24-2011, 08:56 AM

You all have got me thinking about cutting down the 30" barrel to 20", and adding some nice sights. It would be IC once cut to 20", and would allow me to shoot slugs, and 00 Buck. Instead of paying $200+ for the new 21" Rem-Choke. That still leaves me with the 28" barrel with Rem-Chokes. What do you all think of this idea?

JLA · 01-24-2011, 09:48 AM

Thats the route id take. I have done this with more than a couple shotguns and they always shot slugs quite well. Even the buckshot holds a pretty dense pattern at 25 yds with the open cylinder bore

JLA · 01-24-2011, 10:05 AM

here ya go carver, this is my rem 870. I cut the barrel down from 28 inches to 19 inches. I just measured 18 inches and cut it in front of the next post on the rib, then used a flat bastard file to square the bore down to the start of the post. Then once i had it square i stoned it and radiused the edges and cut the top of the rib back 45* from the bore so it wouldnt snag on the case, then used a 1" fine stone ball drinder in a drill to radius the muzzle crown, then a little cold blue and a magnetic birdbuster sight and voila! It shoots fantastic with slugs and buckshot, and still holds a good enough pattern I can shoot clays, bunnies and doves with it with birdshot...

Shooter45 · 01-24-2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by carver

How's it looking on that barrel?

Just saw the guy and I'll find out exactly what he has by the weekend.

Shooter45 · 01-27-2011, 12:41 PM

Carver, you had better start cutting. All he had was a 30" , 2 3/4 barrel. Sorry.

bluesea112 · 01-31-2011, 03:40 AM

Josh, Did I just read your confession to shooting dove with that extended tube on your 870?
You better memorize the number you want to dial when they give you your one phone call.

01-22-2011, 12:24 PM	#1
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,221	short barrel for Rem. 1100 I need a little help guys, and gals. I want to put an 18" barrel on my 1100, and I want it to have rifle sights on it. I can't find one! I might be barking up the wrong tree, I don't know. The only thing I have found so far is a 21" barrel with a Rem-choke. I have to assume that the Rem-choke will screw out, and I can screw in an improved cylener, but am not sure. Any ideas? __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. -->

01-22-2011, 01:15 PM	#2
wkd Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 17	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 What you have found is a slug bbl, that is the shortest that I am aware of with sights. the earlier version of the slug bbl came with a IC fixed choke. The Remchoke version is a lot more versatile, chokes are available from cyl to turkey as well as rifled. You could of course cut off a vent rib bbl and add sights to the rib, I would go for the 21 inch factory. 3 inches shouldn't make that much difference in handling. Last edited by wkd; 01-22-2011 at 01:20 PM.. Reason: after thought

01-22-2011, 01:30 PM	#3
JLA TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Heart Of Texas Contributor Posts: 17,298	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 I personally would order the tactical sights from brownells and silver solder them to my barrel and then re-finish. The easiest way to get what you are looking for myles, is to cut down a vent rib barrel to 18.5" and add tru-glo turkey sights to it, which is a standard 3 dot set-up with 2 green hi vis dots in the rear and one red hi vis up front... __________________ It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 3 for proper trigger squeeze. The latest caliber or gear is no substitute for experience and skill. Rifles and cartridges don't make hits -- shooters do. Fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!

01-22-2011, 02:43 PM	#4
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,221	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 JLA, I have two barrels for this gun right now. It came with a 30" ribbed barrel that I won in a Ducks Unlimited raffel, and I have purchased a 28" barrel with three Rem-Chokes. If I buy the 21" barrel will I be able to remove the Rem-Choke, and screw in an Improved? If not I suppose I could cut down the 28" barrel to 18 1/2", and add sights. __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

01-22-2011, 03:01 PM	#5
Shooter45 Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Contributor Posts: 8,746	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 Carver, don't do anythig yet. I think I found you a barrel.

01-22-2011, 04:55 PM	#7
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,221	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 Hadn't thought of that! I was thinking that this was a deer hunting barrel for shooting slugs, so I thought that the tube in it would be rifled! Maybe not! If it's an IC tube, then I have to ask why? Wouldn't it be an IC if it is only 21" for deer? __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Last edited by carver; 01-22-2011 at 04:56 PM..

01-22-2011, 06:46 PM	#8
JLA TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Heart Of Texas Contributor Posts: 17,298	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 if its smoothbore and designed for rifled slugs it will have a IC choke, that is what is recommended for use with rifled slugs, if you wish to use sabot type slugs you will have to buy a rifled tube, and if you want to use buckshot get a turkey choke (extra full) __________________ It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 3 for proper trigger squeeze. The latest caliber or gear is no substitute for experience and skill. Rifles and cartridges don't make hits -- shooters do. Fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!

01-23-2011, 03:42 PM	#10
Oneida Steve Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 1,028	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 carver, Remington made a fixed choke barrel with adjustable sights for the 1100, but it was 21". I have one in my gun closet. The barrel doesn't have a choke marking but the "dime test" tells me it is Cylinder or IC. I've never seen an adjustable sight 1100 barrel in 18". I have seen 18" bead sight barrels. The 21" rifle sight fixed choke versions are definitely out there.

01-24-2011, 08:56 AM	#11
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,221	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 You all have got me thinking about cutting down the 30" barrel to 20", and adding some nice sights. It would be IC once cut to 20", and would allow me to shoot slugs, and 00 Buck. Instead of paying $200+ for the new 21" Rem-Choke. That still leaves me with the 28" barrel with Rem-Chokes. What do you all think of this idea? __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

01-24-2011, 09:48 AM	#12
JLA TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Heart Of Texas Contributor Posts: 17,298	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 Thats the route id take. I have done this with more than a couple shotguns and they always shot slugs quite well. Even the buckshot holds a pretty dense pattern at 25 yds with the open cylinder bore __________________ It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 3 for proper trigger squeeze. The latest caliber or gear is no substitute for experience and skill. Rifles and cartridges don't make hits -- shooters do. Fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!

01-24-2011, 10:05 AM	#13
JLA TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Heart Of Texas Contributor Posts: 17,298	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 here ya go carver, this is my rem 870. I cut the barrel down from 28 inches to 19 inches. I just measured 18 inches and cut it in front of the next post on the rib, then used a flat bastard file to square the bore down to the start of the post. Then once i had it square i stoned it and radiused the edges and cut the top of the rib back 45* from the bore so it wouldnt snag on the case, then used a 1" fine stone ball drinder in a drill to radius the muzzle crown, then a little cold blue and a magnetic birdbuster sight and voila! It shoots fantastic with slugs and buckshot, and still holds a good enough pattern I can shoot clays, bunnies and doves with it with birdshot... Attached Images __________________ It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 3 for proper trigger squeeze. The latest caliber or gear is no substitute for experience and skill. Rifles and cartridges don't make hits -- shooters do. Fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!

01-27-2011, 12:41 PM	#15
Shooter45 Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Contributor Posts: 8,746	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 Carver, you had better start cutting. All he had was a 30" , 2 3/4 barrel. Sorry.

01-31-2011, 03:40 AM	#16
bluesea112 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: West, TX Contributor Posts: 1,257	Re: short barrel for Rem. 1100 Josh, Did I just read your confession to shooting dove with that extended tube on your 870? You better memorize the number you want to dial when they give you your one phone call.