1100 will not feed from magazine

[1madss]

I picked up a used 1100, actually a Sportsman Auto 12, earlier this week off of GB for a decent price. I field stripped it before accepting the transfer and it looks like a fairly low mileage gun. There is very little wear on the action bar and mag tube. Date code looks to be '85 and it all checked out visually.

My problem in that it will not feed a round from the magazine. When I work the action the round pops up into the carrier, but the bolt stays locked back. If I pull the bolt back and release it goes right into battery and shoots fine. Is this a problem with the feed latch or maybe the interceptor latch? I guess I don't understand enough about the action to know what tells the gun that it is not empty.

 

[Virginian]

It's supposed to lock back when you work the bolt manually, unless you are very quick. I have been shooting them for 51 years and I can maybe get it to do it 30% of the time. When you shoot it, the shell coming out of the magazine trips the feed latch. When it is empty no shell strips the latch so the bolt stays open. A slightly bent carrier latch - common if the hammer was dropped with the trigger group out of the gun - may allow the action to cycle without pressing the carrier release, but the bolt may not stay open after the last shot either.
Go to www.remington.com and download an owner's manual - and read it.

 

[jmr40]

Load the 1st round in the chamber. Press the bolt release to close the bolt. Load magazine.

If you load the magazine first, then pull the bolt open it will lock back. Simply press the bolt release to close the bolt, then top off the magazine.

 

[1madss]

I guess I stand corrected, but my LW will do it all day long. I load a single round into the magazine and cycle the bolt and it will load the single round and close the action.

Good to know there is nothing wrong with the new gun.

 

[Virginian]

My LT20 will also, ever since a friend came over and picked up the trigger group while I had it apart for cleaning and dropped the hammer on the carrier latch. Admittedly I had done it before also by accident. I have a new latch, but it works fine and I have been too lazy to change it yet.
The very new ones now have a little finger on the carrier that lets them cycle through when run by hand. I don't know why they felt they needed to do that after 51 years, but they did change it.

 

[1madss]

Interesting. That explains why the new Classic Trap I've had for a couple of weeks now will also do it.

Thanks

 

[1KPerDay]

My 1100 magnum locks back every time you retract the bolt manually. Shoots and cycles live rounds fine.

http://youtu.be/oS2ESRBbiJQ