![]() "LIGHT WEIGHT" ("LW") (ALSO INCLUDES M/1100 "LT") Model 870 LETTER SUFFIX (DESIGNATES GAUGE) Since letters have obviously been repeated, it's vital to know when your Remington model was introduced/discontinued.Ĭall or email Remington and give them the serial number, they will tell you when it was born, however keep in mind they do make errors.īack up what they tell you with this information ġ950 TO APPROX 1968: NO SERIAL NUMBER PREFIXġ968 TO PRESENT: LETTERS USED (IN SEQUENCE) Only Remington can give an owner a DOM for a gun from this era, that carries no date code - via the gun's serial number. Remington resumed stamping the date code on the barrel on 10/1/01. The date code was marked only on the end flap of the shipping box. (**) On 8/9/99, Remington stopped stamping the barrels with the date code. (*) the years 1943 through 1953 had double letters: ie, MM = 1943 For shotguns with removable barrels, the code will be valid for the manufacture of the barrel maybe for the receiver, as barrels do get switched around.Īccording to the "Blue Book of Gun Values"& ""The Remington Society", the coding continues as follows:ī - L - A - C - K - P - O - W - D - E - R - Xġ - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 Remington Year of Manufacture Codes may be found on the barrel of your Remington rifle on the left side, just forward of the receiver the first letter of the Code is the month of manufacture, followed by one or two letters which are the year of manufacture.
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