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Gun Tools, Their History and Identification, Vol. 1 and 2 by R. Stephen Dorsey and James B. Shaffer, published by Collector's Library in the late 1990s, is a great start to IDing the many tools. They cover US, British and foreign tools. Vol. 2 covers the many kits that that were made for maintaining ...

Your rifle is a Model 1899 Remington Lee Sporting Rifle, standard grade. The checkering for that grade is two points facing the action. I have record of at least one other Rem Lee drilled and tapped for a side mount scope. There were 1,446 Sporters shipped from the factory from 1899 to 1909. 1906 ...

My error, I knew better but did not double check before posting the reply as written in the June 1940 Remington Action newsletter announcing Loy's retirement. Loy's engraving and checkering shop was separate.

I do not think it is the same Gough family. William H. (Bill) Gough and brother Jack A ...

The Remington Research Team found a number of early Remington Action Newsletters in the Remington Archives in Ilion. The June 1940 issue had an article on the retirement of Joe Loy after 45 years of service. He was born March 10, 1865 in Sheffield, England. The family emigrated to the US in 1867. He ...

Larry Del Grego's shop on Barringer Road, Ilion made extra barrels in all gauges for the Model 32. He upgraded Model 32s so that they looked like they came out of Remington's Custom Shop. They should since he hired Custom Shop employees who worked afterhours at his shop. I have a Del Grego upgraded ...

I had one of these Model Stamping errors - a Model 742, in .30-06, stamped Gamemaster Model 760. with a barrel date of Oct 1977. A gun shop in Maine had a 742 in .308 with a barrel date of Oct 1973 that was also stamped Gamemaster Model 760. I know of at least one factory assembly error a Model 742 ...

R. H. Coleman was President of Remington from 1963 to 1974. If this was his personal rifle it was prepped and polished in the Custom Shop for a very smooth action. It appears to have the stepped receiver. He, as a Remington executive, had the Custom Shop in 1953 engrave a Model 32, serial number ...

The quickest way to find out the cartridge is to measure the bolt head. Head diameters for the 6mm USN rimless measures .445 in., the .236 USN rimmed is .517 and the rare .236 Remington rimmed is .548. The 7mmx57 rimless is .470. I measured actual cartridges for the 6mm, .236 Remington rimmed and ...

Some factors to consider when researching Remington Lee Sporter sn 52832.

The serial number 52832 is in the US Navy production range for the Remington lee Model 1885. It is in the range that Lt. A. C. Diffenbach inspected from 1893 to 1894. Some of the rifles may have not passed inspection and ...

Excellent photographs.The RSA Research Team has been researching the Remington Archives in Ilion. The slanted "E" is Master Engraver Carl Ennis's signature. He retired from Remington July 31, 1978.

There are a few records of Carl's early work. Several india ink engraving "pulls" on oil cloth are in ...

You have a very nice Remington Lee Sporter. The lack of a serial number is not unusual. I had two M1899s without serial numbers, a Heavy Weight Sporter shown on p 66 of my book and a full Michigan National Guard military rifle that came from an Armory. I also handled a target M1899 serial number 2 ...

Can you post pictures of the receiver? This might help in IDing who the changes were for. Besides the British the Danish government also tested Lees with a cutoff. I checked the 1920 Remington Museum listing and the number 224 is not a Lee. Also look on the toe of the stock and see if there are two ...

Would you be able to post close up pictures of the engraving? That might help in IDing the engraver.

Charles Semmer showed us how Joy Loy worked his initials into the engraving pattern and also in his book on p.179. They were well hidden in the scroll.
One of the more interesting items that have turned up are some plaster casts in Babe's collection. Apparently Remington engravers experimented with ...

The Remington Model 31 was made from 1931 to 1949. The Remington Factory engravers during this period were: J. Loy, Anda Hardy, R. R. Runge, R. P. Runge, C. Ennis, J Caswell. The documents found in the Remington Archives do not mention a R. W. Baird as a factory engraver. Normally during the prewar ...