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No production records for Remington Arms Co. doubles have been found. The late Charles Semmer created/interpolated serial number chronologies from surviving shipping records for his book Remington Double Shotguns . From Charles' serial number chronology your gun would be of 1902 vintage. It could be ...

The old factory ledger shows the last receiver put in work was 39391 as of December 21, 1933.

As the grades went up. B quality --

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C quality --

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D quality --

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E quality --


While I am a longtime fan of the shotguns of Ansley H. Fox, but I prefer the engraving found on Remington and ...

Barrel length is 30", choked Cyl/Cyl with 2 1/2" chambers.

Was that measured with a bore mic or a drop-in plug gauge? If the bore is anything but the "standard" .662" a plug gauge is worthless! In general, their best use is as a decoy anchor. Parker Bros. doubles into the mid-1890s were very over ...

The 1910/11 folder introducing the rifle that would soon be named the Model 12 --

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The Model 12 from the 1915-16 Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co. catalog --

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1915-16 Rem UMC ...

AZMike wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 5:21 am Hold the lever the right ???

Perhaps up?

Looks to be an 1875 to me, and in better condition than a great many of them.

The addition of a mid-bead or a set of Lyman Twin Ivory sights would have been extra cost options.

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I have found no mention of sights in any of the grade listings in any of the catalogs I have covering the years the Remington Hammerless Doubles were built ...

The Remington Hammerless Doubles, Damascus, Remington Steel and Ordnance Steel were all "Guaranteed for Nitro Powders." The opening page of the 1894 Remington Arms Co. catalog that introduced the Remington Hammerless Double --

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The 1897 Remington Arms Co. catalog ...

From my years of observations I'd say the K Quality guns and the A-Grades had case hardened top-levers and trigger guards. Everything higher had nitre blued top-levers and trigger guards.

Remington was on a shotgun roll in the latter half of the first decade of the 20th century. Their pro Wm. Heer, carried the high average of 96.3% on 14,055 targets for 1906 shooting a pair of Remington Hammerless Doubles and dominated their advertising for early 1907 --

The Gun Behind the Man, The ...

It is actually a Remington Autoloading Shotgun No. 3 "Trap" Grade made by Remington Arms Co. 1905 to 1910. From a 1906 Remington Arms Co. catalog --

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In 1911, Marcellus Hartley Dodge, owner of Remington Arms Co. and Union Metallic Cartridge Co. combined them as ...

I have recorded five Ls on Model 1894s --
all in the 130xxx & 131xxx range and all A-Quality guns, A, AE, & AER.

I have not recorded a star on a Model 1900, but I've recorded five on Model 1894s all on guns with the early style frames, serial numbers from the 114xxx to 131xxx range.

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This DE-Grade has the star at the end of the string of letters --

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In addition to the normally ...

I have been looking at and recording those markings for some time and what I've come up with is --

L is light frame 12-gauge -- /// is standard frame 12-gauge -- X is 16-gauge

KE is the grade of the gun

B is a date/batch or some other code I haven't thought of yet.

The Q on the trigger guard ...