11-87 shotgun

You need to find out what type of 11-87 it is. I had a 11-87 "sportsman" should have been 11-87 POS. It broke in two duck seasons. Very cheaply made compared to a premier or xcs or some of the many other types. Just my 2 cents, mine caused me lots of grief before I sold it cheap on gun broker for parts. It really put a bad taiste in my mouth for any new Remington shotgun. I still shoot an 870 wingmaster my dad bought in 1970 and it works perfectly, go figure.
 
If it's the Premier that sounds like a fair price. I've put over 30k rounds through mine in sporting clays competition over 5 years and never had a problem. It's now my salt water gun and still going strong.
 
In good condition that is a good buy in Premier or Special Purpose 3" guns. I know nothing about the newer sportsmans or 3.5" guns.
 
Dan,
Depends. When the 11-87 SP & 870 SP shotguns hit the market, we were involved in field testing for Remington....beginning of '87. The guns were junk.
It malfunctioned on a turkey hunt in the Catskills ('87) as well as both continually malfunctioning on a set of hunts in S. Texas (Ducks, Crane, Snow geese). They jammed often and would also eject the empty as well as the loaded shell at the same time.

I had to stone & hone my 870-SP just to get it to fire partially reliably. We contacted Remington at the time and told them that they really did not want a field test published on these guns yet.
Personally.....you couldn't give me one of those guns. But then, that's MHO. ;)
Lou
 
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