Years ago I bought a wire rig that was made to attach to my auto shotgun to catch the empties. This one was attached with double-sided tape, and the you'd flip the wire into position or out of the way of the ejection port.

Does anyone know who the manufacturer was, or where I can get it?

I know that T & S makes a shell catcher, but I liked the wire rig better. You don't have to fuss with taking it off and not losing it.

Howzat for truck-related GD?

 

That's why I like my Superposed.

As far as the catch goes, I've never seen one.

Why do you need one?

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What's a 'Superposed'? an O/U?
I use the shell catcher on the auto to stop the empties from hitting the other shooter when I shoot trap. The Rem 1100 is mostly a loaner gun my friends use when I'm trying to teach them how to shoot, but I have a friend who has an 1100 and he wants a catcher.

 

Yeah, it's a Browning Superposed O/U(Belgium). I don't have time to hunt anymore, so I sold my Citori O/U (Japan) to my cousin. That was (still is) a real good bird gun. Bought both back in the early to mid '70s.

When I was skeet shooting in college, my buddies in the skeet clubs I belonged to had this metal clip that they clamped onto their automatics. It clipped onto the bottom lip of the ejection port and it caught the shell. It would just hangup on the clip. Of course, it only worked when shooting singles. Couldn't use it for doubles.

I know some of the guys using this homemade clip used them on both Remingtons and Winchesters.

Sigh. I was never any good at it. I shot 100 in tournament just once. The guys I shot with did 300 routinely.

I was just a poor college kid shooting my field grade guns and these old guys were there with their all guage Pigeon and Midas grade sets. Man, talk about having a major case of ***** envy! LOL. I sure miss those guys.

 

Gofish,
Remington makes a clip that attaches to the side of the reciever that will catch the empty by the brass as its ejected. It's made for the 1100 and the 1187. But like Dennis said it was only good for singles(trap).
Couldn't use it for skeet.

Hobbit

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I would be interested in a cage to catch the shells also, as I am tired of them rolling under the seat.

Life would be a lot simpler if people would just use their turnsignal.

 

Hobbit, glad you stepped into this one. I was never into autos and pumps having started with O/U and stuck with them.

Autos were, in my opinion, too much trouble to clean. Pumps just didn't feel solid in my hands. O/Us fit the bill in my case and I was never into "filling the air with lead" like my hunting buddies were.

BTW, I always felt that it was supposed to be U/O.

 

hobbit,

Thanks for the reply. Remington emailed me and they no longer make that catcher. (They said "it's been years".) The advantage of the wire one I'm looking for is you don't have to remove it and keep track of it, for the empties to spit.

Dennis,

Funny you should mention the Citori. I've got a Citori Combo that dates back to the late 70's. 34"F and 30"F/30"IM(?). USA I'm pretty sure--no 'made in Japan' stamp--how can I tell? Do you know what they're worth? (idle curiousity)

My best ever was ~278 as I recall. Costs too much $$ for practice to get to that point though. And I always dogged the ending. big Bowwow. I could never hit 280.

Why U/O?

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One of my cousins' kid is a gun dealer in NJ. Told me my field grade Citori was worth around $600 in the shape it was in. Stock was scratched up from hunting trips and bluing was worn off in a few areas. It had seen a lot of abuse.

U/O because the wider choke is on the bottom, so that's the barrel you generally fire first. My gun was Improved Cyl/Modified. It was good for the kind of bird hunting I did. Mostly hunted for pheasants, franklins, doves, etc. We rarely used dogs.

I'll never hunt for turkey again. Once was enough. I wanted to puke when we gutted it. I could not believe what wild turkeys eat. GROSS!!!

 

Dennis,

Regarding the turkeys, I'm not takin' the bait. I ain't gonna ask. But, what's a 'franklin'? and can you eat dove? (Suppose you can eat anything...more to the point) what does dove taste like?

 

Taste just like C-H-I-C-K-E-N!......

Them city slickers call it City Chicken!...

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Yup. Doves taste like chicken. You can use their little leg bones to pick your teeth when you're done too! j/k Truthfully, we used to marinate them overnight and bbq them. The breasts are surprisingly meaty.

Hmmm... I misspelled that. It's actually Francolin. It's actually a partridge. Brown feathers. They like to run around on the ground. I think it's one of the tastiest wild birds around. Gotta keep them downwind when you clean them, though. They eat small critters, so the guts tends to smell.

Wild turkeys are bigger, so they can eat bigger critters...

Let me put it this way, as far as turkeys go. If you shoot one, shoot it in the head. You really don't want to get any gut juices leaking out!

 

Dennis and Gofish
Sorry to lead you astray about that clip. I didn't know Remington stopped making them. The only reason I knew about them is that my brother-in-law has one. He's the one who got me interested in the shooting sports. In fact I bought my 1100 from him. Used to shoot a Mossberg 500 pump.
I like the 1100 much better. As far as cleaning an auto-loader, that's part of the zen of shooting for me. I get as much enjoyment out of breaking the gun douwn and cleaning it as I do from shooting it.

Hobbit

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The clip was such a simple design that the guys made their own.

 

Go here and search http://www.brownells.com For those that have to question, you need a shell catcher for some of these communist trap ranges that say, "If it hits the ground it's ours." Being a good F150er, you're also prone to being environmentally prudent and a recycler. If you can't get a shell catcher, then just shoot the crappy paper base wad promotional shells and let 'em fly.