This is a little older video from Forgotten Weapons that popped up on my feed today, showcasing a tactical shotgun used by a Scottsdale police officer in the 1940s/1950s. It's a Remington Model 11, customized with a replacement 20" barrel, aftermarket extended magazine tube, and an early Nydar Model 47 reflex sight from the late 1940s.

So semiauto shotguns with optics and extended mags were "tacticool", even back 70-80 years ago. (It's just missing a sling, and an old incandescent flashlight held on with hose clamps...)

It's a quick watch at ~6 minutes.

Very cool and still relevant fighting shotgun

Prior to getting a SBS stamp for one of my 870, my home shotgun was one of my auto 5 I picked up cheap due to ruined 30 inch barrel and cracked foreend and 60 years of filth. Cut that barrel back to 18.5, had briley thread for thin wall choke and install a bead and had the inside springs completely replaced. A5 innards are not for the faint of heart reccomend somebody do it that knows how to get back together. It is mid 50’s gun it has the auto load feature elevator that can be retro fitted on older guns. I’m not a fan of that suicide safety on the old rem 11 and really older A5. Mine has cross bolt safety. Anyway. Shortened the stock a bit had a decelerator installed and got a Wilson +1 for it to match up to the length of barrel. Thread pitch the same but need a spacer a 1/4 inch of pvc pipe painted black works perfect as a quick fix spacer. Would love to get one of those vintage +2. With an improved choke screwed in I’ve done pretty decent on skeet range. A5 also has shell cutoff feature Vs rem11. Such a cool little home defense rig.

FFFuuucckkk . . . yet another thing that I never knew of existing until clicking the title and that I must covet now.

Please and not thanking you.

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Originally posted by Loswsmith:
FFFuuucckkk . . . yet another thing that I never knew of existing until clicking the title and that I must covet now.

Please and not thanking you.

If you think that's cool and worth coveting, have you seen the FN/Browning "Police Model" Auto 5 shotguns with 8 round extended magazines and wooden handguards, most famously used by Rhodesia and South Africa during the bush war in the 1960s-1970s?

Several small batches of them were imported into the US back in the day. The pop up for sale every now and then. So now you can add those to the list too.

I actually have seen one of those A5's at a gun show in Washington. It was super cool and, at the time, I was too cool for something like that in wood, but it stuck in the head. Later, much to much later, I realized what I was actually looking at. Fuck I have learned to HATE that guy.

Rogue, is that your Rhodesian A5 ? If so congrats.
I missed out on one by a few hours a few years back. Have not seen one offered for sale since.

While on the subject of Police Model Auto 5s, Remington Model 11s, and Forgotten Weapons........

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Originally posted by ElToro:
Rogue, is that your Rhodesian A5 ?

Sadly, no. Just a nice photo of one from another website.

still kicking myself for not buying one of those shotguns when they were all over shotgun news back in the day


do have a Nydar in the original box,
was going to mount it on a High Standard Riot, but the one I have is too nice to mess with,

I have always wanted a Winchester 1897 Trench shotgun. 20" barrel, bayonet mount. Pricey nowadays. Plus I love the "slam fire" feature of the gun.