AndrewR2488
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I'll start this post off with a little backstory.. For the past few years I have been eying a few rifles and shotguns that unfortunately have been sitting in my grandma's storage unit for the past 15 years. I've always had the intention to bring them home and slowly restore them. A few weeks back, I went to her storage unit to get her christmas decor like I do every year. This year I decided to give the guns a better look and see which one would be the easiest to restore. I'm not very knowledgable with older firearms but I did see a pump shotgun, pump .22lr, a bolt action .410, and 2 semi auto shotguns. I gave them all a good look and decided to bring home a semi auto shotgun that looked to be in the best overall condition.
First order of business was to take it to my friends gun shop, Aransas Firearms and have him give it a look over. It was coated with a pretty good amount of rust, the bolt was pretty stubborn, and the wood was pretty tarnished.. It was evident that the 15 years of sitting in a storage hadn't been very kind. Within 10 minutes of Tony working on it there was a significant improvement. He was able to pass on a lot of knowledge and gave me a great gameplay of how to restore it and where to source parts. I had done some quick online research before bringing it to him and had a suspicion that it was a Remington Model 11 which Tony was able to confirm. He even found the owners manual online and printed me out a copy. I've done some tinkering with it here and there and cleaned up some on it today and now that Christmas is going to be coming to an end I'll be focusing on getting this shotgun into new condition. It will probably need to be reblued, and a rebuild kit will need to be put in to replaced all of the old springs and such. I'm very excited to get this thing back into like new condition because this particular gun belonged to my great grandfather.
I'll be updating this thread periodically as things start to progress, I wish we had thought to get some photos of it before we started cleaning on it. I will post some photos of it tomorrow.
First order of business was to take it to my friends gun shop, Aransas Firearms and have him give it a look over. It was coated with a pretty good amount of rust, the bolt was pretty stubborn, and the wood was pretty tarnished.. It was evident that the 15 years of sitting in a storage hadn't been very kind. Within 10 minutes of Tony working on it there was a significant improvement. He was able to pass on a lot of knowledge and gave me a great gameplay of how to restore it and where to source parts. I had done some quick online research before bringing it to him and had a suspicion that it was a Remington Model 11 which Tony was able to confirm. He even found the owners manual online and printed me out a copy. I've done some tinkering with it here and there and cleaned up some on it today and now that Christmas is going to be coming to an end I'll be focusing on getting this shotgun into new condition. It will probably need to be reblued, and a rebuild kit will need to be put in to replaced all of the old springs and such. I'm very excited to get this thing back into like new condition because this particular gun belonged to my great grandfather.
I'll be updating this thread periodically as things start to progress, I wish we had thought to get some photos of it before we started cleaning on it. I will post some photos of it tomorrow.