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02-24-2018, 08:00 AM | #3 | ||||||
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Thanks for the reply Dean ,I wondered the same thing ! It seems odd that is would have been a board room decision unless Remingtons top brass wanted to set their guns apart from the earlier guns ! You have to wonder what the earliest Serial # is with this positioning of the dogs is ? I only own two Remington Era Guns but my earliest Serial # is 240983 ,CHE 20 Gauge ,26" Barrels Straight English Style Stock with a Small Beaver Tail ,it also has the dogs displaced !
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02-24-2018, 09:26 AM | #4 | ||||||
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I know your fabulous CHE very well. What is the positioning of the dogs on that one?
If I had to guess about the choice of where to position the setter and the pointer my guess would be that it was the elder Robert Runge, he being the chief engraver on Parkers under Remington and was the chief engraver for Parker Bros. from the time of Frederick Anschutz's death in 1930 I believe. Maybe he just wanted to set Ilion manufacture apart from Meriden manufacture in his own way. . .
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02-24-2018, 10:07 AM | #5 | ||||||
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The Setter is on the left and the Pointer is on the right ! It would be nice if the members checked their Remington Era Guns and post their findings and we could get an idea of when this engraving change actually took place ! I could be wrong but I don't recall this ever being discussed before on our site !
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