#Remington serial number chart serial numbers#
(I do like it, but that is not the point. Check the serial numbers located on the left side of the barrel on your Remington shotgun. This is not a promo, other than that company was willing to help. No, this does not "prove" anything other than the rifle was produced before 2007. The rifle has a Morgan recoil pad that was produced no later than 2007 as confirmed by the company. Update: Remington stopped putting date markings on barrels in 1999. However, the rifle could have been etched at a later time to link the bolt to the barrel. Edit: That number is laser etched on the bolt, so that puts it much later than I would like. However, the serial number doesn't align so there is that.Įdit: I just took the bolt out and there is a 0495 mark on the bolt itself, that really looks like a date, but it also matches the last 4 of the serial number. What makes this really funky is that the Model 7 wasn't launched until 1983, which doesn't align with any of this. This is all theory! This is a strange serial number that is seriously munging the history of the M700 and the M7 and the M70. 300 that is would be trivial to temporarily convert manufacturing. What is interesting is that the 30/30 is close enough to a. This adds credence to my theory that Marlin was manufacturing barrels for something not in the Marlin name. In the chart above, there is a chunk of serial numbers that are missing. If my suspicion is correct, the barrel was manufactured by Marlin for Remington in 1964. The only titbit I was able to find is that Marlin Firearms (Part of Remington) used similar date codes:
This chart ( ) only seems to apply to Model 700's and it still stops with the 535XXXX series.
#Remington serial number chart code#
On the receiver, we made a small video to show the difference between barrel code and serial number on the receiver. Remington Serial Number Chart 2 Part order barrel (not originally assembled to firearm) 3 Service section received 4 Return as received 5 Employee sale R.E.P. You can always use Remington Serial Number Lookup to determine the manufacturer date of your Remington weapon. If the "H" is actually the year marking on the wrong side of the barrel, that would make it a 1987 model. Serial numbers of Remington 700 or 1100 serial numbers can be decoded in the same way as Remington 870 serial numbers. However, on the right side of my barrel there is an "H" where the test mark should be. There is not much clarification on the internet if that applies to the Model 700 and/or Model 7.Īccording to this, the letter code should be on left side. This would be a Auto-5 "Final Tribute" 12 ga., manufactured in 1999 with the serial number 1001.Thank you, but those don't apply as I do not have a letter code suffix on the serial number.Ħ digits were used up until 1963 and 7 digits until ~1978. To commemorate this historic event for the Auto-5, Browning released the "Final Tribute" version in 1999. The following letters correspond to the months of the year. Remington's 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 Auto-5 will be discontinued for 2000. Here is some information that you can get from you serial number after 1921. This would be an Auto-5 Magnum 12 ga.,manufactured in 1976 with the serial number 01001. In 1976 Browning standardized its serial number identification which it followed until 1998. This was then followed by the serial number beginning with 1000.Įxample: 69G1000 = A 1969 Auto-5 Lightweight 12 ga.
In 1969 Browning started using two digits for the date of manufacture which was followed by a four digit code that identified the type of Auto-5: 8G=light weight for 1958.Įxample: 8M1000 = A 1958 Auto-5 standard weight shotgun with serial number 1000 G=Light Weight.įrom 1958 serial numbers were preceded by the date of manufacture. Serial Number designation for the Light Weight changed to G. Serial number is on the side of receiver. Year of manufacture on Pre-World War II production is strictly a guess.įrom 1940 to 1946 production of the Auto-5 was turned over to Remington. Exact production figures are not available. OGDEN UTAH-U.S.A." Very few serial number records remain.īeginning with Serial Number 1 to approximately 228,000.