If you removed the choke, it would definitely be a "removable choke".sailingaway79 wrote:I recently inherited a Remington 1100 s/n N075260V. Remington told me it is a 1979 model. The barrel is stamped "Full" however it looks to have a removable choke (two notches inside barrel). Looking at the history of the 1100, it seems the '79 model was fixed choke. Am I seeing a removable choke? If so, why is the barrel stamped "full"? I removed the choke and it is stamped "C.A. Extra F." Would this indicate a custom choke? I enjoy skeet but as you can imagine, a extra full choke is not the best for a beginning skeet shooter. Any help on if the choke issue would be great.
A couple of possibilities come to mind.......
Someone had it bored and threaded to accept choke tubes......or, it's a later barrel that was designed for Remington choke tubes.
Does the choke tube you removed have a brand name on it? Like Remington? The choke tubes I have for my 1968 vintage 870 that has a 1990s-vintage choke-tube barrel have "Remington" stamped on them. (for what it's worth, I also have several more fixed-choke barrels for that gun)
You didn't say how long the barrel is, but (as you know) typically skeet guns have shorter barrels. Once you find out whether it's a factory Remington choke or not, it shouldn't be a problem to find a more open choke tube to shoot skeet with it. There are a number of entities which manufacture choke tubes for various brands of shotguns. Some of them do so to the manufacturer's specs.
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