Gas cylinder is located around the front part of the magazine tube. It is very similar to the model 1100 but some parts, including barrels, ARE NOT interchangeable between models 1100 and 11-87. Remington 11-87 is a gas operated,semi-automatic, magazine fed shotgun. Remington model 11-87 tactical shotguns are widely used by the Law Enforcement and even some military forces in the USA and worldwide. It is slightly heavier than model 1100 shotgun, and offers bigger effective range and bigger firepower due to the more powerful Magnum ammunition it fired, but it comes at the price of the stronger felt recoil. All 11-87 shotguns are fitted with rubber recoil pads on the buttstocks to decrease felt recoil. Most Police / Tactical models are equipped with magazine extension tube by standard. These Police / Tactical models differ from the hunting and sporting guns by having black parkerized finish,polymer only stocks, relatively short barrels and rifle-type sights (with bladefront and open or ghost-ring rear). Bothmodel 1100 and 11-87 are manufactured in parallel, and at the present time (end of 2002) Remington catalog list about 20 hunting variants of the Model 11-87plus at least four Police / Tactical models. The new model is technically similar to its predecessor but is stronger because it is intended to fire 3' (76 mm) magnum shells. The Remington Model 11-87 shotgun (sometimes misspelled as 1187) was announced in the year 1987 as an improved and strengthened version of the Remington model1100 shotgun. Remington 11-87 Police with 20 inch barrel.īarrel length: 14' (355 mm), 18' (457 mm) or 20' (508mm)Ĭapacity: 5 (standard) or 7 (with magazine extender) rounds in underbarrel tube magazine We are trying to make this a quick reference chart for members who want to find the date of their Mossberg.Ī big thanks to blacksmith who is also working on this project and a chart for this.Remington 11-87 Police shotgun with 18 inch barrel.

We are asking for the first few digits of you serial #, (A123xxx)and any info you have on the gun.(box label,date bought)

I know there are a lot of members wanting to know the date of their Mossberg's without the hassle of calling Mossberg or Havlin. We are getting together a Mossberg serial number data base.

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