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Here is a question I have. I went to a gun shop recently and the salesman showed me a Remington Model 1100--.410 with screw in chokes. It had a brass pin at the front of the forarm about 3/16 to 1/4 inch in diameter. He asked me if I knew what it was for. I did not. I looked at the gun and the pin does not go all the way through the forearm. It is only on one side- the left side of every one I have seen. It is on all gauges. Old guns and new, it seems. I thought it was for 1100s with screw in chokes, but then I started noticing them on all 1100s- with or without screw in chokes. I wondered if it holds the forearm to the ejector arm. So, I can't figure out what it is for. I emailed Remington and got no response. Some guns have them and many 1100s don't.
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Last edited by Jimmy W; 04/01/26 08:55 AM.
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/WvRWx21.jpg) It is that little brass pin right behind the screw down knob on the forend.
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Last edited by Jimmy W; 04/01/26 08:55 AM.
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It’s to prevent cracking, I believe
Out there doing it best I can.
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I wondered about that but the pin does not go clear through the forearm. I can't tell how deep it does go into the forearm. When I looked at the guns on the websites like, Guns International, Gunbroker or any websites with several pictures of Remington 1100s, there is no consistency on the gauges, barrel lengths, chokes, wood grain or any other feature I can see that has these pins in them.
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It's a brass screw turned into the wood to prevent cracking.
It goes in deep enough to hold the forend together. But not so deep that the tip protrudes from the other side.
The head is cut off and then the wood sanded level along w/ the screw shank at the same time.
They used to lay in a fibre glass cloth epoxied into the interior to prevent the cracking which was a major issue with them.
Some of the epoxy cloth reinforcements have become loose over time.
The brass screw was likely an attempt to better that older 'fix'.
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Which makes me wonder- why don't all of the 1100s have them? How do they know which forearms to put the pins on? Because they definitely are not on all of them. From what I have seen- maybe half of them or less have these pins in the forearms.
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Best to avoid these all together. Well, thanks for your answers, gentlemen. I appreciated it. 👍
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