what year is my shotgun? its old, the SN# is 179791

[charger1hazzard]

i bought it off a 70 year old guy who has let it sit for 20 years. it was his dads gun when the guy was a teen. gun fires and shoots accurate still.



•12 guage
•semi auto
•sn# 179791
says reminton umc
On top of barrel it says remington arms-union mettalic cartidge co., remington works, ilion, N.Y.U.S.A brownings patents oct. 9,1900, dec.17,1901, sept. 30, 1902, june 16, 1903

[Researcher]

The old factory ledger, available on this web site, begins in September 1919, at serial number 199611 for the 12-gauge Model 11 autoloaders, about the time the company resumed civilian production after the Great War. So, your gun was likely made in the mid-teens. Remington Arms Co. introduced the John M. Browning designed Remington Autoloading Gun in 1905.
In 1911 the company name was changed to Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co., and about that time they began referring to the autoloading shotgun as the Model No. 11. In 1920, the company name was changed again to Remington Arms Co., Inc.

http://www.remingtonsociety.com/rsa/questions/FR09

[charger1hazzard]

How can you tell what model it is? and is there a way to tell the value?