#REMINGTON MODEL 12 SERIAL NUMBER DATES SERIAL NUMBERS#
#REMINGTON MODEL 12 SERIAL NUMBER DATES SERIAL#

#REMINGTON MODEL 12 SERIAL NUMBER DATES SERIAL#

SN calculations reflect the reality “gaps” as well as “duplicates” within the serial numbering process. The factory shop-assembly process resulted in final rifle production in no particular SN order or sequence, therefore rifles with higher SNs than the number of rifles produced may exist for any given month. Also, it is noted that final rifle assembly followed receiver serialization by an approximate average of 2 weeks. All “end-of-month” SNs are calculated approximations only. Serial numbering began with SN 3,000,000 and numerically remained continuous to end of production except as shown below. This report reconciles in finality all rifle inspection approval issues that may have remained after close of each monthly billing period. In absence of actual factory production records predating “final inspection” via note #1 above, the “factory invoice” record becomes the next most reliable statistical basis for approximating “end-of-month” SNs.įinal approved rifle production based on Ordnance Dept., Small Arms Branch, Industrial Division record summary dated March 10, 1944. inspection report data used for monthly invoicing for services rendered under contract. Remington’s rifle production based on Ordnance Dept.

#REMINGTON MODEL 12 SERIAL NUMBER DATES SERIAL NUMBERS#

inspection, they represent the earliest and most accurate base-data for approximate calculation of actual “end-of-month” production Serial Numbers (SNs) from the start of production through February, 1943. Since these were final assembled and tested rifles made ready for Ordnance Dept. No such comparable statistics are known to exist beyond February 1943. I love the old Remingtons humpbacks, regardless whether they are pre-model 11s or are Model 11s.(Based in part on documents obtained by Clark Campbell from the Ilion, NY Remington Plant Manager files, circa 1955)Īctual assembled rifles in the Remington warehouse inventory awaiting Ordnance inspection as shown on the Planning Supervisor’s “Accounting Summary” dated March 9, 1943. Why not post a few pictures of your gun showing all these features? I'd sure like to see it. In fact, the real early Remington autoloaders that I've seen have often been confused with early Browning A-5's because they did not say Remington on the barrel. The barrels of all the real early ones that I've seen have been plain to the point that nobody has been able to tell if they were actually original to the gun, or were added to the gun later, because none identified Remington as the manufacturer. It didn't become the Model 11 until 1911.) All of the very early guns like this that I've seen do not have the flying duck and flying pheasant rollmarks on the receiver like the later Model 11's have, and they do not have Model 11 rollmarked onto the breechbolt like the later Model 11's do. (From 1905 until 1911 the Browning patent automatic shotgun that Remington made was simply called the Remington Autoloading Shotgun. I don't claim to be an expert, but all of the Remington 'Model 11' 12 guage shotguns that I've ever seen or heard of that have six digit serial numbers located on the bottom of the receiver have been very early guns I think some of them and maybe all of them that I've seen were made even before the gun was called the Model 11.

Remington model 12 serial number dates