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Found an interesting one at Gander Mountain...

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I stumbled upon one of the WWII era Remington produced A-5's (not 11, has magazine cutoff) in 20 gauge. A new friction piece and ring later, and it has become a great bunny slayer.

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Cool. Good job.

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Too bad it has a Cutts, but far better that than a Polychoke or a Herter's. Did it have the Cutts tubes?
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It came with several, though I'm sticking with the "spreader" for now, as it is my new dedicated bunny gun.
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Barrel code puts production at February of 1941.
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I got curious and went back to the 1944 First Edition of Gun Digest. It shows that the Remington Model 11 was indeed available with a factory-installed Cutts Compensator with spreader and full choke tubes - ALSO available with Poly Choke. Of course, there were no sporting guns being made in the US in 1944, and much of the gun information given in the First Edition of GD was actually from the pre-war period.

Exactly how you could tell if your Cutts was original or aftermarket, I do not know. It shows that the Browning was also available the same way. Now, whether the Browning was made by Remington or was pre-Nazi-invasion Belgian FN, I cannot determine. If yours could be established as having been originally shipped with a Cutts, then it would be worth more.
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Is there a Remington equivalent of a Winchester letter? Not that I'm going to part with it, but I would love to learn the history of this piece. I'm also trying to determine if all of the American Brownings had matted barrels. The only info I've been able to locate on that matter was a similar one that sold on Gunsamerica... I tend to take information regarding rarity in advertisements with a grain of salt...
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I can't say about the US Brownings, but I once had a 20 Ga M11 (early 1930's, as I remember) that had a solid (not ventilated) matted rib on the barrel. I had been told that feature was a little unusual, but not unknown. That's one gun I wish I had not sold, but I bought it for my wife, and she did not like it. I don't believe there is such a thing as a Remington factory letter, but there is a Remington collector site/forum that you might be able to get some information from.
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