Skeet barrel markings

[Researcher]

The original barrel date code is AK, A = March K = 1941. Then there is the repair code PL3, P = June L = 1942. Perhaps that was when a MOD and FULL gun like my December 1940 gun --

241968 01a 26-inch, 16-gauge, XJ X = December, J = 1940.jpg

was pulled from inventory, had the chokes changed and was remarked to fill an order. Equally, or even more, likely it was something else. At any rate unless repair ledgers from Remington miraculously appear, all we can do is speculate.

[jeffery c]

Originally Posted by Scott Janowski

Looks someone went through a lot of effort to mill off the original choke markings.

I now see what your talking about! The normal location for chokes has oval millings there.

[jeffery c]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Those SKEET IN stamps look newer and deeper than the other stamps on the flats. And I have never seen one with the same skeet stamp on both flats. Many of the other Remington stamps are familiar to us but not all of them are. I wonder what the real story of those Skeet stamps is...





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The stampings also seem to have been made with individual letter stamps, as they are not well aligned.

[jeffery c]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

The original barrel date code is AK, A = March K = 1941. Then there is the repair code PL3, P = June L = 1942. Perhaps that was when a MOD and FULL gun like my December 1940 gun --
was pulled from inventory, had the chokes changed and was remarked to fill an order. Equally, or even more, likely it was something else. At any rate unless repair ledgers from Remington miraculously appear, all we can do is speculate.

Rearcher, Would a Parker letter define much information for this gun? I mainly was looking at it because of how late it is, in the last few hundred, not because it's a Skeet.

[Researcher]

The Research Letter pick from the Home Page shows no information for 242087.

[Reggie B]

Proper skeet markings.

[jeffery c]

Originally Posted by Reggie Bishop

Proper skeet markings.

Thanks, I note that the letters in the word "skeet" are nicely aligned. Do earlier guns have the SN on the side of the lump vs the pictures myself and Researcher posted?

[Dean Romig]

Yes, they started putting it on the flats after the move to Ilion, I believe.





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[Researcher]

Reggie, thanks for the picture of the skeet choke markings. We can clearly see the LG3, February 1938, repair code marking, but the original barrel date code farther back is partially obscured by the lug and I can't make it out.

[Bill Murphy]

Dean, I dug out the file on AHE .410 # 241,576. I have clear photographs that show SKEET IN and SKEET IN. I have a full file on this gun including some great photographs. I am sending you a PM with one simple question about this gun. The SKEET IN and SKEET IN chokes and the 28" barrels would indicate that the original owner was a competitive skeet shooter. The G&H letter may show who he was. I am reluctant to bother Bob Beach with a question about a gun long gone. Or is it??