Remington was already up to ser# 71,48x in 1909 according to their findings.Įarly Remington repeaters are fine firearms. Scroll down the thread to find the chart listing the ser#'s for the pre 11's. That s from looking at the chart in this link which is I believe derived from the Tipton article of 20yrs ago on the subject.ĭone with known ser#s and their shipping dates and extrapolation to fill in the blank areas, that's about the best there is around AFAIK. That simply meant that the gun was recv d by the Service Dept and Returned to the owner w/o having any work done to it.Ī ser# range of 35,000 should be somewhere betw 19 mfg'r. Sounds like your gun, whether it started life as a Model 11 or a Sportsman, spent its early days in. My 12-gauge Sportsman with a serial number in the 43x,xxx range has a barrel date code of LK which equates to February 1941. Same location as where the Bbl Date Codes are stamped.Ī Repair Code is the Month/Yr Letter code followed by the number '3'Īnther return to factory Date Code after 1921 you might find on an early gun would be one followed by a '4' Around 1931 or 2 Remington introduced a three-shot version of the Model 11 with a different magazine tube and forearm. The gun would have then gotten a Repair Code stamped onto the bbl. The combined 12-gauge Model 11 and 'Sportsman' serial numbers reached 499999 in August 1943 and they then jumped to 700000 and continued. One sent back to Remington for repair AFTER 1921. Or it is a Sportsman, a three shot gun, introduced in 20-gauge in 1930 and 12- and 16-gauge in 1931. A Model 11 can have a plug in the magazine to reduce the capacity to comply with Federal Migratory Waterfowl regulations. You may however see a Repair Code on the bbl of a pre-11. It is either a Model 11, a five shot gun. From then on they were serial numbered in the same sequences as the Model 11 and the Model 11 receivers got the one bird roll-stamping.
If you find a 'date code' on the bbl,and the bbl matches the frame,the gun itself is at least a 1921 mfr.ġ921 is when Remington started using the Bbl Date Code system. In late 1937 Remington dropped the separate serial number sequences for the 12- & 16-gauge The Sportsman and the 20-gauge in 1938.
Ser# on pre Mod11 should be on the bottom of the action/frame ahead of the loading/carrier port.