Shotgun Chronicles Volume II - Semi-auto & Pump Shotguns by Hahn Nick

Author:Hahn, Nick [Hahn, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3830-7
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2013-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

This article originally appeared in Gun Digest 2013, 67th Edition.

CHAPTER 7

The Remington Model 1100–Everyone’s Favorite Autoloader

The gas operated auto-loading shotgun made its first appearance after World War II. Unlike the recoil operated autoloader which first made its debut as Browning’s famous A-5, the gas gun’s first successful appearance was as a military rifle, the M-1 Garand. There were others, of course, but it was the M-1 Garand that set the stage, followed quickly by the M-1 Carbine, both U.S. military weapons. Other countries too had their gas operated semi automatic rifles, the Russian Tokarev SVT, the German GEW 41, the Japanese Type 5 (a copy of the U.S. M-1), and even the Italian Breda Model1935. But all of these guns were used in limited numbers during World War II. None were standard issue nor as successful or as widely used as the U.S. M-1. So, it is only natural that when a first successful gas operated shotgun was developed its mechanism was basically an offshoot of the system used in the M-1 Garand.

In 1956 Sears, Roebuck and Company launched their J.C. Higgins Model 60, the first successful gas operated shotgun. The gun was bulky and heavy, partly caused by the operating rod that was like the one on the M-1. The action was basically the same as on the old M-1, of course it was modified for a shotgun. It was a good gun, at least according to the gun writers of the day who tested and reviewed the new gun. It was bulky, and not the most graceful looking shotgun. The irascible and witty gun writer of the period, Colonel Charles Askins, said in his review of the Model 60, that the initials J.C. in J.C. Higgins stood for “Josephine Clementine,” and that looking at the new shotgun, it was quite obvious that she was “in a family way!”

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