![]() ![]() No one can tell you over the internet what ammunition may or may not be safe in one of these old guns!! That can only be done by a qualified double gun smith (not Joe S**t the 870 parts replacer) with the gun in hand. No one, including Charles Semmer who wrote the book Remington Double Shotguns, has really decoded those letters and hashmarks down the barrel tube bottoms. I don't think anyone left alive knows what those codes on the bottom of the barrels of Remington Arms Co. catalogue was the last one to include the doubles, and there was a version of the 1909 catalogue that only had the Remington Autoloading Shotgun, the Remington Repeating Shotgun, and the Autoloading Repeating Rifle. There must have been a lot of guns involved, because the records show 3206 Model 1894s, and 16435 Model 1900s shipped in 1910. of St Louis, for their entire inventory of break-action shotguns in inventory and in process, on February 3, 1910. So, they concluded a deal with Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co. Pedersen designed Remington Repeating Shotgun (later known as the Model 10). Browning designed Remington Autoloading Gun (later known as the Model 11) and their John D. That would be 338/511 = 66.1% and 336/511 = 665.84% right, or about improved modified in both barrels.īy the end of the first decade of the 20th Century, Remington saw that the future laid with their John M. From surviving hang-tags we know the standard load they used to target 12-gauge guns was 1 1/4 ounces of #8 going 511 pellets to the load. If the number is three digits, that is the count, if the number is two digits a leading 3 is implied. stamped the actual pellet counts of their test patterns on the rear barrel lug of their Model 1889 hammer doubles and their Model 18 hammerless doubles. A picture of their salesman’s sample of the various styles of Damascus available is shown on page 275 of Semmer's book. Remington supplied a number of different pattern Damascus barrels on these old doubles. It is invaluable if you are going to shoot, invest, collect or play in the Remington double gun field. It is available from The Double Gun Journal, 80 for $49 plus $10 shipping and handling. The Model 1900s had a snap-on/off forearm and their serial numbers were in the 300,000 range, often preceded with a stock letter Q. The K- and KE-Grades had Remington Steel barrels. The Model 1900s were all K-Grades, with E added to the designation if the gun had ejectors and D if it had Damascus barrels - K-, KE-, KD-, or KED-Grades. Remington Model 1900s are a simplified, cheaper, version of the Model 1894, built on the same patents - No.
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