I am trying to find the age of my double barrel side by side received for Christmas. The marking on the receiver
only says Remington Arms. It has a long forearm and 30 inch barrels. Its serial number is 347341.
I appreciate any help you can provide.
Double Barrel Age???
Re: Double Barrel Age???
Hi, Your Remington Double is a Model 1900 made from 1900 to 1910. 98,475 were made in K Grade only with options auto ejectors ,steel barrels ,etc
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okiepaul
Re: Double Barrel Age???
Hey, thanks a lot. I kinda figured that was what it was but I wasn't sure. Wish I knew what year it was made but that is pretty close. That makes it around 100 years old.
It's in pretty good condition. It has a Fajen Stock and the forearm is a large wrap around. The bores are real clean and the gun it tight.
I almost bought the gun last October at a locan gun shop (Tulsa, Ok) but couldn't make myself pay that much ($439.00) then a few weeks later I decided I would buy it anyway and you guessed it, it was already sold.
Christmas morning when I opened my last package it had a picture of a side by side laying on our back bedroom bed and it turned out to be my remington. My wife went back and bought it for me in October and kept it hid until now.
Did I get the right wife or what?
It's in pretty good condition. It has a Fajen Stock and the forearm is a large wrap around. The bores are real clean and the gun it tight.
I almost bought the gun last October at a locan gun shop (Tulsa, Ok) but couldn't make myself pay that much ($439.00) then a few weeks later I decided I would buy it anyway and you guessed it, it was already sold.
Christmas morning when I opened my last package it had a picture of a side by side laying on our back bedroom bed and it turned out to be my remington. My wife went back and bought it for me in October and kept it hid until now.
Did I get the right wife or what?
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Re: Double Barrel Age???
According to the production table in Charles Semmer's book on Remington Doubles, 347,341 would have been made in 1904.
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 and D if it had Damascus barrels -- K-, KE-, KD-, or KED-Grades. The K- and KE-Grades had Remington Steel barrels. The Model 1900s had a snap-on/off forearm and their serial numbers were in the 300,000 range, often preceded with a stock letter Q.
You need to check out Charles G. Semmer's book "Remington Double Shotguns." It is available from the author 7885 Cyd Drive, Denver, CO 80221, for $60 plus $5 shipping and handling. It is invaluable if you are going to shoot, invest, collect or play in the Remington double gun field. Remington supplied a number of different pattern Damascus barrels on these old doubles. A picture of their salesman’s sample of the various styles of Damascus available is shown on page 275 of Semmer's book.
Remington Arms Co. stamped the actual pellet counts of their test patterns on the rear barrel lug of their Model 1889 hammer doubles and their Model 1894 and 1900 hammerless doubles. If the number is three digits, that is the count, if the number is two digits a leading 3 is implied. From surviving hang-tags we know the standard load they used to target 12-gauge guns was 1 1/4 ounces of #8 going 511 pellets to the load. My 12-gauge KE-Grade Model 1900 is stamped 33 on the left and 24 on the right. That would be 333/511 = 65% left and 324/511 = 64% right, or about improved modified in both barrels. The chokes measure .027" in both barrels of that 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 and D if it had Damascus barrels -- K-, KE-, KD-, or KED-Grades. The K- and KE-Grades had Remington Steel barrels. The Model 1900s had a snap-on/off forearm and their serial numbers were in the 300,000 range, often preceded with a stock letter Q.
You need to check out Charles G. Semmer's book "Remington Double Shotguns." It is available from the author 7885 Cyd Drive, Denver, CO 80221, for $60 plus $5 shipping and handling. It is invaluable if you are going to shoot, invest, collect or play in the Remington double gun field. Remington supplied a number of different pattern Damascus barrels on these old doubles. A picture of their salesman’s sample of the various styles of Damascus available is shown on page 275 of Semmer's book.
Remington Arms Co. stamped the actual pellet counts of their test patterns on the rear barrel lug of their Model 1889 hammer doubles and their Model 1894 and 1900 hammerless doubles. If the number is three digits, that is the count, if the number is two digits a leading 3 is implied. From surviving hang-tags we know the standard load they used to target 12-gauge guns was 1 1/4 ounces of #8 going 511 pellets to the load. My 12-gauge KE-Grade Model 1900 is stamped 33 on the left and 24 on the right. That would be 333/511 = 65% left and 324/511 = 64% right, or about improved modified in both barrels. The chokes measure .027" in both barrels of that gun.