OK, let me try to explain this one more time. It doesn't have anything to do with the cost of a new barrel or if the gun is clean or not. If you have a Remington model 1100 magnum, it was not built to shoot field or game loads. It was made to shoot 2 3/4" high velocity, 2 3/4" magnums or 3" magnums. You can change the barrel, you can add changeable chokes, you can do anything short of replacing the gas piston, it is not going to cylce field or game loads.
Yes I agree, for $200 the gun is a steal. I would buy it in a second. It would make an excellent pheasant gun. It would even work well on snowshoe rabbits and close in turkeys and jump shooting ducks. But it will not make a good grouse, quail or skeet gun where 2 3/4" field or game loads are used. That is exactly why Reminton made the LT20. The LT 20 was made for all 2 3/4" field, game, and target shells. It will also cycle 2/34" magnums. But it won't even chamber 3" magnums. That was a choice you had to make if you bought a model 1100 in the 70s or 80s.
hope this clears things up
Tony212