i hate to keep asking OT stuff but doggone it, i go where i can get answers. picked up this evening at cabelas an m11 that was so cheap that coupled with the points i had on my card it was essentially free. average used, polychoked, etc. but the bizarre thing is the forend. i knew the gun was heavy even by M11 standards (turned out is 9# with a 26" total barrel). the forend i'm 100% certain is Remington factory finish and checkering but it's far deeper than standard. on centerline it's 0.4" thick. no finger grooves down the sides; rather they taper up from the radiused bottom towards the barrel. the forend BY ITSELF weighs 15 OUNCES! that's essentially one pound of forend. i can't find in any old shooters bibles or any other book i have a picture of any model 11 with a fored like this. was there ever a skeet version m11 with a deep fat f/e?
another somewhat odd thing, the gun is in the 400k range, the bbl is still numbered to the gun and yet there are no letter codes (that i've found) for year of mfg. that serial number should have been well up into that era. and if this were a skeet gun i'd have thought the (matching) barrel would have been something other than plain/mod.
it also has 4 tapped holes on the top of the receiver, 2 either side of centerline and abt 3" apart longitudinally. i've never seen one but i'm assuming for something like the old Nydar sights?
roger
