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by Researcher
Fri Jul 11, 2025 9:50 am
Forum: RS / Post - 1898
Topic: Model 11 with factory polychoke
Replies: 9
Views: 4754

Re: Model 11 with factory polychoke

This is from a Model 31, so it doesn't have the raised sight bead needed on the Model 11/The Sportsman.
Model 31 Polychoke 01.jpg
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by Researcher
Tue Jul 08, 2025 7:53 pm
Forum: RS / Post - 1898
Topic: Model 11 with factory polychoke
Replies: 9
Views: 4754

Re: Model 11 with factory polychoke

A 20-gauge Model 11 factory Poly-Choke --
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by Researcher
Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:13 am
Forum: General comments or discussion
Topic: I need a manufacture date PLEASE!!!
Replies: 1
Views: 926

Re: I need a manufacture date PLEASE!!!

With no prefix letter it would be 1963 to 1967.
by Researcher
Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:05 pm
Forum: RS / Post - 1898
Topic: Help identifying rare Remington 870 Wingmaster (possibly factory error)
Replies: 2
Views: 47

Re: Help identifying rare Remington 870 Wingmaster (possibly factory error)

How did you get Jan 1970? If the date code is BX it is January 1973 or 2003, if it is XN it is December 1966 or 1993. To my eye that receiver is much older than that barrel. With no prefix to the serial number, it is pre-1968.

The 16-gauge barrels I know have a very distinct taper for about 3/8 ...
by Researcher
Mon Jun 02, 2025 12:46 pm
Forum: RP / Post - 1898
Topic: MODEL 31-tc
Replies: 1
Views: 955

Re: MODEL 31-tc

Looks like a late Model 31 TC with the alloy trigger group, a non-original recoil pad, that has been buffed and reblued and got some after-market engraving on the receiver.

P.S. You have posted this in the "Remington Handguns" section.
by Researcher
Mon May 26, 2025 9:21 am
Forum: RS / Pre - 1899
Topic: Remington SbyS Identification Help
Replies: 2
Views: 252

Re: Remington SbyS Identification Help

With the Damascus barrel your gun is a No. 3. From the 1898 Remington Arms Co. catalog --
1898 Remington Arms Co. catalog pg 8.jpeg
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by Researcher
Fri May 02, 2025 1:14 pm
Forum: RS / Post - 1898
Topic: Question on Model 11 Receiver
Replies: 1
Views: 404

Re: Question on Model 11 Receiver

You are correct. A 16-gauge receiver put in work during November 1940.
by Researcher
Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:14 pm
Forum: RS / Post - 1898
Topic: Model 11 Built in 1949?
Replies: 3
Views: 429

Re: Model 11 Built in 1949?

Scanning Guns International today I spotted a vent rib The Sportsman Skeet Gun, serial number 784888, with an LUU barrel date stamp.

https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns- ... =103051758
by Researcher
Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:30 pm
Forum: RS / Post - 1898
Topic: Model 11 Built in 1949?
Replies: 3
Views: 429

Re: Model 11 Built in 1949?

That is a new highest 12-gauge serial number for me. LUU is February 1949.

The new guns the Model 11-48 and Sportsman-48 didn't actually appear until the 1949 Remington Arms Co., Inc. catalog.
Sportsman 48 1949 Catalogue.jpeg
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by Researcher
Fri Mar 28, 2025 10:01 am
Forum: RS / Pre - 1899
Topic: Remington Double Barrell Shotgun
Replies: 2
Views: 1671

Re: Remington Double Barrell Shotgun

Serial number 225546 would be a Model 1889 from 1902 according to the serial number chronology the late Charles Semmer constructed from surviving shipping records, for his seminal book Remington Double Shotguns . No production records have been found. From a 1901 Remington Arms Co. catalog --

1901 ...
by Researcher
Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:35 am
Forum: RS / Post - 1898
Topic: 3200 repair upgrades
Replies: 2
Views: 3157

Re: 3200 repair upgrades

If it has the two hex-screws at the bottom of the breech face it has the upgrade.
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by Researcher
Wed Mar 19, 2025 8:24 pm
Forum: RS / Post - 1898
Topic: Model 10D dating assistance
Replies: 5
Views: 2281

Re: Model 10D dating assistance

Old Researcher has been chewing on this a bit. We know from the old "between the Wars" factory ledger that Model 10 production had reached serial number 172939 on September 30, 1919, with the first entry in the ledger. The Remington Repeating Shotgun first appears in the 1908-09 Remington Arms Co ...
by Researcher
Tue Mar 18, 2025 5:08 pm
Forum: RS / Post - 1898
Topic: Remington 100 Manufacture date
Replies: 2
Views: 3167

Re: Remington 100 Manufacture date

The R prefix to the serial number began in 1990 and ran for about five years.
by Researcher
Sun Mar 09, 2025 8:41 pm
Forum: RR / Post - 1898
Topic: Help Needed In Identifying Some Stocks???
Replies: 4
Views: 2748

Re: Help Needed In Identifying Some Stocks???

The stock with the swivels smacks of a Winchester Model 70.
by Researcher
Sun Mar 09, 2025 8:10 pm
Forum: RP / Post - 1898
Topic: Model 12..but what model exactly?
Replies: 1
Views: 6217

Re: Model 12..but what model exactly?

Looks like a Model 12C "Target" Grade to me. From the 1915-16 Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co. catalog --
1915-16 Rem UMC Catalog, Model 12C Target Grade.jpeg
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