Winchester Super X, Model 1 ?

[Virginian]

The misinformation one sees on these forums never ceases to amaze me. Remingtons have no "pot metal" in anything. The trigger group is aluminum. Some newer 870s have a plastic trigger group; innovative from some manufacturers, but cheap if Remington does it. The receiver is forged and milled steel. The aluminum receiver B gun lovers now moan they are too heavy. The 'O' ring doesn't move in service, and I have only had to replace one on nine different 1100s and 11-87s in 47 years, and that one was on a 20 gauge and was pinched and still working fine.
The Winchester Super X was and is a very good gun; not a perfect gun. A lot of people love them for the way they feel and shoot for them. If it felt great to me I would get it. It was designed to go head to head with the 1100 and win. It didn't, and joined a whole pile of others like the Ithaca 51 that were all touted as 1100 killers. A lot of people don't like Remingtons, but a lot do too. That doesn't prove anything or automatically make them bad or good.

 

[jaysouth]

I shot Super Xs extensively for skeet and trap. I bought the last three NIB super Xs that Herman Sports had for $900 in 83. They threw in a used Super X trap gun with a broken stock.

I shot thousands of skeet and trap loads that were so light that they would not set the inertia hammers on a Browning Citori O/U.

You have a fine gun that will last you and your heirs for a long time. Nu-Line Guns in Harvester, MO can do anything that needs to be done to one.

By the way, there were 88,000 manufactured. I have it from an insider at Olin that WW lost between $25 and $50 on each one they sold. But the wood on target models ranged from great to spectacular.