Remington Model 1900 Double Barrel Shotgun

[2shooter]

Double_Barrel From the pictures you have a early gun the trigger guard has two screws, the stock is smooth back of the receiver there is no Q in front of serial number.This tell me its early one piece pins You can check the pins with the gun cock take the barrels off point the receiver down see if the firing pins stick out you may have to bump it they don't come out there one piece. The bump safety was used on both style firing pins.

[Double_Barrel]

2Shooter,
Thanks for the info I will check it tonight. The serial number on the trigger guard does have a Q in front though.

Double_Barrel

[Researcher]

Q380439 would be a 1909 gun. Those marks down the bottoms of the barrels do not necessarily equate to the grade of the gun. At least not in a straight forward manner that we have been able to interpret. If your gun is a Remington Steel barrel gun with extractors it is a K-Grade. If it has ejectors it is a KE-Grade.

Those odd length barrels have very likely been cut.

[Researcher]

I don't know of anyone loading 12-gauge shells stated to be 2 5/8 inches currently. Plenty of companies like RST offer low pressure 2 1/2 inch shells. There are no issues with shooting 2 3/4 inch shells in 2 5/8 inch chambers, AS LONG AS THE PRESSURES ARE SUITABLE FOR THE GUN IN QUESTION. In fact, both the A.H. Fox Gun Co. and Parker Bros. held their chambers 1/8 inch shorter that the intended shell, believing that the case mouth extending that far into the forcing cone cushoned the shot as it passed and improved patterns. In the 1930's there were a couple of articles in The American Rifleman (July 1936 and March 1938) on the virtue of short chambers. In Sherman Bell's series "Finding Out For Myself" in The Double Gun Journal there were a couple of articles on tests showing no significant increase in pressure from shooting shells in slightly short chambers.

Probably the vast majority of these old short-chambered doubles that have been in service during the last 90 years have digested plenty of modern SAAMI spec 2 3/4 inch shells. I know for a fact that my Father's 1896 vitage AE-Grade Remington Hammerless Double digested many cases of 2 3/4 inch Western Super-X/Remington Nitro Express/Federal Hi-Power type shells from the 1940s when he got it to the late 80s when he quit hunting and is still in good shape down in my gunroom.



I'm not recommending this practice, just stating fact. For volume shooting at clay targets I hand load 12-gauge 2 3/4 inch Remington STS cases with 7/8 ounce of shot at 1200 fps and 6300 psi for use in my old doubles. I like this load so well I use it in all my guns except autoloaders.

[2shooter]

haroldlee Is the extractor one piece or two? The ejectors are in the forend. They will not click,or kick the shell out until fired.Somebody may have disabled them.

[Double_Barrel]

Researcher,
Great picture of your dad! It is great when you have family history with a firearm that you get to use.

Double_Barrel

[tudurgs]

Here's a picture of my Dad and I taken on Maryland's Chester River in the 50's. He later bacame a Remington Director

[Double_Barrel]

tudurgs,
Great picture, do you remember what shotgun was used to get the ducks?

Double_Barrel

[tudurgs]

M31 30" matted rib. I still shoot the gun. Had a Briley thin wall steel shot choke installed, and the gun is still my favorite duck gun

[Double_Barrel]

Does someone have a picture of what the internal parts look like on a 16 guage model 1900 forend with ejectors? mine is missing parts and I do not know what the parts that are missing look like.

Thanks a bunch.

[Researcher]

Serial number 309719 would be a 1901 vintage gun. In the 1901 Remington Arms Co. literature they only catalogued two grades of the Model 1900, the Grade K with Remington Steel barrels and a plain extractor, and the Grade K.E.D. with Damascus barrels and selective automatic ejectors. Remington Arms Co. didn't show any cases in their catalogues of that era. The first Remington Arms Co. catalogue that I've found that shows gun cases is 1908 --

There is no "2" below the serial number.

On the Watertable? Or, on the barrel flats of the number two set of barrels and on the forearm for the number two set of barrels?