Remington 1900 firing pins

[Trutta]

Does anyone know if the 1900 had hammers and pins separately or hammer and pins as one complete unit like Parker shotguns?

[2shooter]

Remington Model 1900 had both type firing pins early guns had one piece later had floating pin in receiver.

[Trutta]

Is there any dates as to when the change was made?

[dieNusse1]

As best I recall the change took place in 1902 - 03. I have a 1902 with solid hammers. The S/N began with 337039 in 1903 so that should give you an idea of where your gun stands. BTW - the 1894 also was affected by this change.

Check the firing pins when the gun is cocked. If you have floating firing pins, they should be visible and "flop" around as they are not spring loaded. The firing pins on the solid hammers guns will be recessed into the action body when cocked.

Stocks come up on eBay from time-to-time but you may wish to consider a semi inletted one.

[Researcher]

The cut-away drawing and the parts diagrams in the Remington Arms Co. catalogues don't begin showing the new style hammers with separate firing pins until 1908 --

1908 Catalog pg 8, cut-away.jpg (56.4 KiB) Viewed 807 times

1908 Catalog pg 48, Parts Diagram.jpg (98.13 KiB) Viewed 807 times

The earlier catalogues showed this, from 1901 catalog --

1901 catalogue cut-away.jpg (111.93 KiB) Viewed 807 times

1901 catalogue parts diagram.jpg (85.59 KiB) Viewed 807 times

Generally speaking, the guns I've recorded into the 131xxx serial number range are the early style action, while a gun in the 132xxx range (1905) has the new style. In K-grades the change is between 348xxx (1904) and 356xxx (1906) and I've recorded a couple of guns in the 355xxx range that have the sear pin in the new-style location and you can see the early location hole has been plugged.

[rem1894]

The earliest I have seen a 1894 or 1900 double with floating firing is 1903 but most were still the early type up until about 1906 when all were the floating type after that. I have collected them and worked on them for over 45 year's now.

[c094728]

Can a the firing pin bushing be changed from new to old? I have an old 1900 that has a bushing with containing a pin but was missing all of the firing parts. I originally got the firing levers without the pin but they didn't push on the pin at all (maybe the bushing was not seated). Then I found a firing lever with the pin on the end. That one doesn't seem to fit as it barely has enough room under the opposite end to put the spring under it and when you do the pin is extended and can not be retracted because the spring is in the way. I'm not sure what I have but it must be a mismatch of parts.

[dieNusse1]

I'm not sure about the terms you're using. Does firing lever mean hammer?

The old style has a one piece hammer/firing pin. There is no "bushing".

The later style uses a floating firing pin which is held in place by a "bushing" screwed into the action body. There is no spring used to contain or control the firing pin. The hammer of course lacks a firing pin.

As far as I can recall the main spring and sear are the same on both versions. Whether an old style hammer could be used in a later style model (sans "bushing") is a good question.

[LeoFreskos]

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