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Are you the John Taylor I shot skeet with at Col King's shoots at Andrews AFB in the late 1970s and 1980s?

The 20-gauge Model 11 serial numbers started at 1000000, so the receiver for this gun 1000862 was put in work during late March/early April 1930.

The Improved Model 11 12-gauge with the cross-bolt safety behind the trigger was introduced in the 1928/9 timeframe. The 20-gauge Model 11 was introduced in 1930. By February 22, 1930, the first 132 20-gauge Model 11 receivers had been put in work.

Why are the Remington Arms Co. break-action single barrel shotguns No. 3 and No. 9 referred to as "Rider" all over the internet? Joseph Rider's last patent assigned to E. Remington & Sons was his Patent No, 74,428 granted Feb. 11, 1868. It appears to me that the No. 3 was designed by R.C. Fay ...

How about OB O = July B = 1955. A picture or two of the whole gun will narrow it down.

There were a lot of choke devices marketed from the 1930s into the 60s. The most often seen "comp" types were of course the Cutts Compensator --

Cutts Compensator 1962 Gun Digest.jpeg

Pachmayr's POWer-PAC --

Pachmayr POWer-PAC 1962 Gun Digest.jpeg

and the Weaver Choke --

Weaver Choke, 1956 ...

My 12-gauge The Sportsman has a 1936 Sportsman serial number and a barrel date code PE P = June E = 1936 and is just as you describe The Sportsman on the left side of the receiver and the one-bird roll-stamping.

From the pictures of 20-gauge The Sportsman I've saved, 9869 has the 3-bird roll ...

Just for reference, here is a high original condition A quality gun --

Thanks for the pictures. The gun is the entry-level A-Grade. Is it a 12-gauge or 10-gauge? What is the length of the barrels?

What you are calling "engraving" is the Damascus barrels. The alternating ribbands of iron and steel that went in to making the barrel tubes take the finishing differently ...

The Remington Hammerless Double Barrel Shot Gun (aka Model 1894) was introduced in the Remington Arms Co. October 1894 catalog, offered in 10- and 12-gauge and with or without automatic ejectors.

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From the 1930 Remington catalog --

No production records for Remington Arms Co. doubles have been found. The late Charles Semmer created/interpolated serial number chronologies from surviving shipping records for his book Remington Double Shotguns . From Charles' serial number chronology your gun would be of 1902 vintage. It could be ...

The old factory ledger shows the last receiver put in work was 39391 as of December 21, 1933.

As the grades went up. B quality --

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C quality --

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D quality --

132280 11 16-ga DEO-Grade trigger plate 8x10.jpg

E quality --


While I am a longtime fan of the shotguns of Ansley H. Fox, but I prefer the engraving found on Remington and ...

Barrel length is 30", choked Cyl/Cyl with 2 1/2" chambers.

Was that measured with a bore mic or a drop-in plug gauge? If the bore is anything but the "standard" .662" a plug gauge is worthless! In general, their best use is as a decoy anchor. Parker Bros. doubles into the mid-1890s were very over ...