Remington Society

The only hammer double made by Remington Arms Co. has become known as the Model 1889. A few very early guns from 1888 were numbered in the numbers from the E. Remington & Sons Model 1885/87s then the serial numbers began at 30000 and ran up to about 105,000 in 1900 which was overlapping into tha...

Before Remington began offering the Model 1100 in 28-gauge and .410-bore, Ernie Simmons was converting larger gauge Model 1100s to the little guns. Actually being built on the larger frames they gave Skeet shooters the same feel as their larger bore 1100s.

The gun is a "Remington Autoloading Gun." That is what Remington Arms Co. called it from its introduction in 1905 thru 1910. In 1911 the company officially became Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co. and they began calling the gun the Model No. 11. Arond 1920 the company became Re...

In the mid-1990s Remington was closing out their Model 3200 parts and I knew several people who sent back their 3200s to Ilion to be fitted with extra sets of barrels.

I'd be willing to bet that with a serial number that low it was made in 1906. If you have a digital camera and could post some pictures of the gun here and of the exact markings on the barrel, etc. it would help a lot in identification. The early guns don't have lock-screws on the major screws on th...

With a serial number in the low four digits your gun would most likely be a Remington Autoloading Gun. When Remington Arms Co. introduced the John M. Browning designed semi-auto shotgun in 1905, it was called the Remington Autoloading Gun. When Remington Arms Co. was combined with Union Metalic Cart...

There are three basic variations of the Model 31, the 1931 version, the 1934 version, and the 1941 version. The 1941 version with the trigger moved rearward for a better grip to trigger relationship. I like these later versions the best. Also with the 1941 versions the light alloy Model 31L versions...

In my pre WW-I ammo catalogues the shotgun shells are normally priced by the 1000 (two cases). The additional price for the extra length hulls, with more and better wadding, were also given per/1000. The usually available lengths in 20-gauge ammo was 2 1/2 inch, 2 3/4 inch, 2 7/8 inch and 3-inch. I ...

The Olin's post WW-II 3-inch "magnum" 20-gauge shells first with 1 1/8 then 1 3/16 and finally 1 1/4 ounces of shot, initially intended for their Model 21s, is a far cry from the 1912 3-inch 20-gauge shells. The 1912 vintage shells only had 1/4 dram equiv. more powder then the regular 2 1/...

Welcome to the site. There are several of us here that play in the Remington doubles game, but if you've talked with Charles Semmer, you've talked with the best!

Here is a nice little 16-gauge Model 1894 for your collection!!

http://www.stevebarnettfineguns.com/frm_inventory1.htm

That larger fuller forearm and the grip cap were features of The "Sportsman" Skeet Gun. I just went down to the safe and pulled out all three of my Sportsman and they all have one Pheasant and one duck, and they all say "The Sportsman" on the bolt, not on the left side of the rec...

It is a Sportsman Skeet Gun pure and simple. Like Bob Stack shot to Skeet fame as a teenager back in the late 1930s!!! I'd buy that in a minute if I stumbled on it at a local gun show. There are lots of old squareback Remingtons around, but bonifide Skeet Guns are scarce. "The Sportsman" w...

There was a wonderful history of the Remington Autoloading Gun/Model 11/Sportsman in the history section of the Remington on-line magazine on their web site for a couple of years. I thought I saved out a copy, but I sure can't find it, and it is gone from their magazine now. I spoke to our web maste...

Remington Arms Co. only offered plain, matted, and matted rib barrels on their Autoloading Shotgun. Vent ribs began being offered after the joining of Remington and UMC. A guess would be that your gun got a new barrel after the introduction of vent ribs?!? Or, maybe your gun was already in work at t...

E. Remington & Sons made nine different hammer double barrel models -- the Whitmore designed "lifter" models were 1873, 1875, 1876, 1878 and 1879. Conventional toplever models were 1882, 1883, 1885 and 1887. We need more information, and pictures would really help, if we are to tell yo...