Remington 1900 firing pins

[Trutta]

Does anyone know if the 1900 had hammers and pins separately or hammer and pins as one complete unit like Parker shotguns?

[2shooter]

Remington Model 1900 had both type firing pins early guns had one piece later had floating pin in receiver.

[Trutta]

Is there any dates as to when the change was made?

[dieNusse1]

As best I recall the change took place in 1902 - 03. I have a 1902 with solid hammers. The S/N began with 337039 in 1903 so that should give you an idea of where your gun stands. BTW - the 1894 also was affected by this change.

Check the firing pins when the gun is cocked. If you have floating firing pins, they should be visible and "flop" around as they are not spring loaded. The firing pins on the solid hammers guns will be recessed into the action body when cocked.

Stocks come up on eBay from time-to-time but you may wish to consider a semi inletted one.

[Researcher]

The cut-away drawing and the parts diagrams in the Remington Arms Co. catalogues don't begin showing the new style hammers with separate firing pins until 1908 --





The earlier catalogues showed this --





I've got quite a gap in my observed guns information. A gun in the 124xxx range (1902 according to Charles' chronology) has the early style action, while a gun in the 132xxx range (1905) has the new style. In K-grades the change is between 348xxx (1904) and 356xxx (1906).

[rem1894]

The earliest I have seen a 1894 or 1900 double with floating firing is 1903 but most were still the early type up until about 1906 when all were the floating type after that. I have collected them and worked on them for over 45 year's now.