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Check this link. More specifically, the red asterisk near the bottom where it says:
(*) On 8/9/99, stopped stamping the barrels with the date code. They continued to mark the date code on the end flap of the shipping box. They resumed stamping the date code on the barrel on 10/1/01.
http://www.remingtonsociety.com/rsa/que ... arrelcodes
I think you may be able to narrow it down to those years.
What letter was used for the serial number prefix?
They incremented it about every five years......"A" in the latter part of the 1970s, "B" in the early 1980s, "C" in the latter 1980s, etc.
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