Bought this Model 11 at an auction last weekend. Serial numbers match. Manufactured in June of 1922. Mod choke. Show's it's age. Forearm, friction ring and spring appear in good shape. The action and receiver are real clean with the original breechblock pad still in place. What appears to be the original stock has had a repair. Someone made a homemade turnbuckle by drilling through the stock between the receiver tabs and pulling the two sides together. It appears they used a brass bolt and nut and then filed down both sides, polished and coated over the work. The weapon has a J.Unertl Hawk scope utilizing a Weaver side mount. I find it odd to place a varmint scope on a shotgun, but what's a fellow to do in the mid-sixties if you want glass on your slug gun?
I had a model 11-48 back in the mid-eighties. loved it. I purchased it with a cracked forearm. So I ordered a new stock and forearm from a gunsmith friend. When the wood showed up it was for a Model 11, so I placed the items in a closet, did nothing, and gave the model 11-48 to my father who sold it a few years later. So when I saw this Model 11 advertised in the auction, I told my wife about the wood for that old Model 11 stashed away. She went with me to the auction and prompted me to purchase the weapon. We did, I paid about the right value for the Model 11 and the scope, but I was pleasantly surprised when I got home, went to my father's empty house, and dug out that old wood for the Model 11 after 24 years. It was in the original Bishop carton. Nice Missouri walnut. I might just do nothing again and stash this stuff for my son.
I had a model 11-48 back in the mid-eighties. loved it. I purchased it with a cracked forearm. So I ordered a new stock and forearm from a gunsmith friend. When the wood showed up it was for a Model 11, so I placed the items in a closet, did nothing, and gave the model 11-48 to my father who sold it a few years later. So when I saw this Model 11 advertised in the auction, I told my wife about the wood for that old Model 11 stashed away. She went with me to the auction and prompted me to purchase the weapon. We did, I paid about the right value for the Model 11 and the scope, but I was pleasantly surprised when I got home, went to my father's empty house, and dug out that old wood for the Model 11 after 24 years. It was in the original Bishop carton. Nice Missouri walnut. I might just do nothing again and stash this stuff for my son.
