February 2008

The ‘Surgical’ Tactical Option: Remington’s 11-87 Police Gun

When we poured hundreds of buckshot and slug rounds through 12-gauge semiautos from Big Green, HK-Fabarm, and FN, the tried-and-true Remington handled best and shot the softest.

Many of the advantages of a tactical shotgun are the same as that self-defense shotgun you might have propped in the corner of your bedroom: devastating firepower, mechanical reliability, ease of use. But your bedroom shotgun and working tactical shotguns do have differences: beefy tactical guns are ready to go on the offensive to serve warrants, root out armed bad guys, and break stuff with either lead or steel.

We recently had the mixed blessing of handling three tactical or

What’s in your trunk? If you have a date with Al K. Duh, we’d recommend you bring this crowd-pleaser, Remington’s 11-87 Police 12-gauge 3-inch No. 9861, $850. It fed a variety of shot and slug ammunitions flawlessly, ventilating silhouettes with 00 buckshot pointillism. Also, it shot slugs at more-distant targets with “surgical” accuracy, according to one tester.

police shotguns we purchased from Fountain Firearms in Houston (www.fountainfirearms.com). We know they were guns of that type because their names told us so. The players were the now-discontinued HK Fabarm…

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