But selling three different autoloaders simultaneously didn't make sense, and the company didn't project any of the three as its autoloader of the future. The engineer's name was Wayne Leek, and his words showed obvious enthusiasm for the latest creation of the design team he headed.11 As history has recorded, his statement was also correct, and prophetic.īy 1959 Remington was making three different autoloading shotguns: the recoiling barrel, Browning-based Model 11-'48, the gas-operated Sportsman-58, and the Model 878. Lifting one of the new guns from the wall rack behind him, a tall, boyish-looking engineer with an infectious smile turned to the agency group and said "Gentlemen, this is the new Model 1100, and it's going to revolutionize shotgun shooting." It was the fall of 1962, and a meeting was underway at the Remington firearms plant in Ilion, New York, to brief Remington's advertising agency team on the company's 1963 new gun introductions.
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