Fair price?

[EmeraldBullet]

I was gifted an old shotgun from my grandfather. He thinks it's a late 70's or early 80's 1100. He said he's only fired it once or twice and probably not since before I had been born. I want to take it to a gun smith to be inspected and deep cleaned. I was quoted around $90. Do you guys think this is a fair price?

[Henrydog]

That is very fair, most smiths are $45-70 an hour.  Being from that time frame I doubt there is anything wrong with it.  When you say old shotgun I think of a 1920's Parker

[EmeraldBullet]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I guess by old I just meant hadn't been fired in a long time.

[EmeraldBullet]

The gunsmith said he will probably replace a spring and one other thing, can't remember what. I am fine with the price, I just am sure it's collected a lot of dust and want it to be reliable when I take it out bird hunting. I also am unfamiliar with what that sort of thing usually costs so figured I would double check here just in case. Thanks guys.

[Mongo Hunter]

Just took a quick peak at Remingtons website. the cheapest 1100's they make now are around $1100 or so.

Well worth having a gunsmith look at it and get it running.

[300rum]

Don't hesitate to try to diy.  Blow it out with an air compressor and run a lightly oiled rag over it and it will run.  The trigger group comes out easily by popping out the two pins in the action.  Blow out the firing group, lightly oil the action, no oil on the firing group and put it back in.      Make sure to take off the foreend and lightly oil the magazine tube after blowing it out.      If the mag tube is lightly oiled and cleaned every hundred rounds or so the rest of the gun will run.  I use Rem oil on my 1100's, it is a very light oil and perfect for the 1100 in all weather conditions.

Don't worry about the springs unless there is a problem.  I am running a 40 year old, or so, 1100 with the original springs.  I don't know how many rounds those spring have on it, probably thousands.

The only problem you might have is that the gun wasn't broken in, it may take a couple boxes to get everything "married" but on those old 1100's they were fit very nicely and you likely won't have any problems.