Gentleman,
I was really bothered with not knowing who performed the work on this gun and finally got a chance to look more closely in the right location and found the Remington service codes on the barrel flat. My questions now are when was the service date and is this considered original condition if Remington performned the work? I will try and attach photos. Not sure if its BBK3, or if the B was a double stamp. Thanks for any information you can provide me.

Brett,

I'm just a Fox guy who visits here on occasion but I believe "BK3" would mean your gun was returned to Remington for repairs in January of 1941. I'm sure others can check my math.

Incidentally, there is a reprint in the Summer 2014 PP's of a wonderful article by Charlie Price entitled, "Remington Date Codes on Parker Guns" that clearly explains the "decoder ring" logic to this art form!!

Thanks for the reply, so I can assume that Remington did not use three letters and then a number for the date codes. If you enlarge the second photo you can see that there are two letter B's spaced part however one is struck lighter than the other. I used to be a Fox guy as well and regret selling the XE 16 gauge I once owned but I know who currently owns it now so maybe one day it will come back home.

I don't believe "BBK-3" was an option so I'm betting it's an errant hammer strike.

By now I am getting very worried. If you all know what my score was on quail all those years please don't post it on here. That would be very embarrassing. For goodness sake don't mention the dove score.