Manufacture Dates
Serial Numbers by date (factory record book)
The following barrel date code information is for Remingtion firearms manufactured after 1921.
Remingtons manufactured after 1921 have a code located on the left side of the barrel near the frame that identifies the year and month of manufacture.
The following letters correspond to the months of the year.
Example: B=January, L= February, A=March
B – L – A – C – K – P – O – W – D – E – R – X
B – Jan
O – Jul
L – Feb
W – Aug
A – Mar
D – Sept
C – Apr
E – Oct
K – May
R – Nov
P – Jun
X – Dec
M – 1921
T – 1926
Z – 1931
E – 1936
K – 1941
RR – 1946
XX – 1951
C – 1956
H – 1961
N – 1966
U – 1971
I – 1976
B – 1981
G – 1986
L – 1991
Q – 1996
V – 2001*
A – 2006
F – 2011
N – 1922
U – 1927
A – 1932
F – 1937
L – 1942
SS – 1947
YY – 1952
D – 1957
J – 1962
P – 1967
W – 1972
O – 1977
C – 1982
H – 1987
M – 1992
R – 1997
W – 2002
B – 2007
G – 2012
P – 1923
W – 1928
B – 1933
G – 1938
MM – 1943
TT – 1948
ZZ – 1953
E – 1958
K – 1963
R – 1968
X – 1973
Q – 1978
D – 1983
I – 1988
N – 1993
S – 1998
X – 2003
C – 2008
R – 1924
X – 1929
X – 1934
H – 1939
NN – 1944
UU – 1949
Z – 1954
F – 1959
L – 1964
S – 1969
Y – 1974
V – 1979
E – 1984
J – 1989
O – 1994
T – 1999*
Y – 2004
D – 2009
S – 1925
Y – 1930
D – 1935
J – 1940
PP – 1945
WW – 1950
B – 1955
G – 1960
M – 1965
T – 1970
z – 1975
a – 1980
F – 1985
K – 1990
P – 1995
U – 2000*
z – 2005
e – 2010
Using barrel codes (such as those listed above) to date the manufacture are reliable on Remington rifles, as the company rarely changed barrels on a customer’s rifle.
Using these barrel codes to date a shotgun is somewhat unreliable, as shotgun barrels are often interchanged at random. One needs to be sure that the barrel is original to the gun before trusting the Barrel Code listing, above.
(*) On 8/9/99, Remington 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.
