It's time to play "Repro Detective"!
 

You see what I see? What's odd here? Identify the oddity and get yourself an attaboy. I can't say that I've ever seen another one like it before, have you?

"Made In Japan" in that location on the barrel.





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Good job Dean, that was quick! You've earned your way to an attaboy!

Have you or anyone else ever seen it on a splinter forend in that location before?

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Same gun Scot. You knew that though, you little detective. :p

I'm still intrigued by that gun..true prototype or embellished?

I love the depiction of the pointer..

I have not seen a Repro with "Made In Japan" in that location before.

That pointer is an exact copy of Robert Runge's engraving when he worked for Remington as chief engraver on the Parker project.





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Very observant Scot, you also are awarded an attaboy! Congrats!

Just like the pointer varies from the pointers on the standard run of DHE Repros, so too, does the Setter and pheasants. Another seldom encountered stamping on the barrel of this gun is the 70mm chamber stamping, we discussed this stamp previously and it was thought to have been applied on only the very first run of Repros. In the listing of this particular gun it states that it's out of the Skeuse collection.

If I'm not mistaken, that's the location of the "mij" roll-stamp typical of guns with a BTFE. That said, the BTFE gun I have has the mij roll-stamp in the typical SFE location so..

I contacted the seller about this gun just about the time it became available..he didn't realize the engraving differences and he didn't have any info indicating the gun was in fact, a true prototype. Here's the left and, underside of the gun. If I recall correctly, it's a "P" gun.

Ha! we posted simultaneously..

*edited to add: I've come very, very close to taking a chance on that gun a number of times..I like it.