Remington Society

Whether there is a difference between the "Decarbonized Steel" of the lowest grade Remington hammerguns and the "Remington Steel" of the lowest grade hammerless guns has long been a question to which I've seen no satisfactory answer.

According to the old factory ledger, available on the RSA web site, your gun would be a June 1923 gun. There should be a date code on the left side of the barrel just foreward of the receiver.

The April 1897 Remington Arms Co. catalogue introduces steel barrels on the Remington Hammerless Doubles. Prior to that date they were only offered with Damascus barrels of varying qualities by grade. Two types of steel barrels were introduced. Remington Steel which sold for the same price as the or...

You have a Remington Autoloading Gun, the John M. Browning designed autoloader that Remington introduced in 1905. In 1911 Remington Arms Co. was combined with Union Metallic Cartridge Co. as Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co. and they began calling this gun the No. 11. In that your gun sa...

Sounds like you have about a 1908-vintage gun. Remington Model 1900s are a simplified, cheaper, version of the Model 1894, built on the same patents -- No. 528,507 and No. 528,508 both granted Oct. 30, 1894. The Model 1900s were all K-Grades, with E added to the designation if the gun had ejectors a...

It sounds like the gun you have is Remington's first pump-action shotgun which started life circa 1908 as the Remington Repeating Shotgun, then was briefly called the Model 1908 and then became the Model 10 after Remington-UMC merged in 1911.

E. Remington & Sons made four different models of conventional top-lever hammer doubles -- Model 1882, Model 1883, Model 1885 and Model 1887. The Models 1882 and 1883 still have vestigial percussion fences below the breechballs while the Models 1885 and 1887 do not. Remington Arms Co. made one h...

DuPont bought controlling interest in Remington Arms Co., Inc. in 1934. In the early 1980s they called in the outstanding Remington stock and issued 0.55 share of DuPont stock for each share of Remington stock. I saved the newpaper clipping, but didn't write the date on it, but it was filed with my ...

We'd have to see some good detailed pictures of the gun before we could tell you anything about it. However, with the mention of the engraving ten inches down the barrel it sounds like something done for some GI in post-war occupied Germany or Japan. Factory D or F grades didn't normally have engrav...

Looks like you have a wonderful EEO-Grade Pigeon Gun. From the table in Charles G. Semmer's wonderful book on Remington doubles it is a gun of 1909 vintage. In the 1908-09 Remington Arms Co. catalogue the EEO-Grade had a list price of $230. Two patents were issued on the same day, October 30, 1894. ...

There were three evolutions of the Model 31 Remington -- the 1931 version, the 1934 version and the 1941 version. The 1941 version has the best take-down mechanism IMHO and has the enlarged trigger group for a better grip feel and more room in the trigger guard for a gloved finger. Several dealers o...

No one can tell you over the internet that a gun is safe to shoot. It needs to be examined by a competent double gun smith. According to the serial number table in Charles Semmer's book on Remington Doubles, a gun in the 73,xxx range would be late 1895 or early 1896 vintage. These old Remington dou...

What do the markings say on the gun? If it is Remington Arms Co. it is the 1905-1910 range, and was called The Remington Autoloading Gun. If it is Remington Arms - Union Metalic Cartridge Co. it is 1911 to 1920, they began calling it the Model No. 11. If it is Remington Arms Co., Inc. it is after 19...

Remington Arms Co. only manufactured one model of hammer double barrel shotgun, the Model 1889. Their predessor E. Remington & Sons made a number of different hammer double models. The serial numbers on the Model 1889 appear to have started with 30000 and had reached over 100000 by 1900. That me...

I have found after many years of this that many old doubles seem to stick on Winchester primers, but work fine with Remington primers. My Father's old 1896-vintage AE-Grade had this problem when he first got it, and he found that the firing pins protruded thru the breech face much farther then on hi...