The letter on mine shows it was shipped to a (T.S) C.V Bracher. Research shows that he wasinvolved with Remington ammunition and had some patent letters ?

I have no doubt that mine is an original skeet.

I have no doubt of its originality either Jeff... My only question about it is the markings stamped on the flats in regard to year of production commonly seen stampings.





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Both of those pictures are angled to obscure the location of Remington era barrel date codes.

This is a better pic of the 16, looks to be a N and possibly a T or an I or maybe a 1? I’m not familiar with the Remington date codes. The 12 looks to be a o or 0 inside a square.

The N and the broken I are apparently some Remington inspector's marks. I can barely see one letter of the date code. Yellow arrow --

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Here is an example of a barrel flat with the N and broken I but a clear view of the date code.

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AE A = March E = 1936.

From my observations, while still in Meriden they put the date code for the barrels near the rear as above. After the move to Ilion they started putting the date code farther forward abreast the cocking hook.

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The 16 has a C F marked in that location. The best picture I could find of the 12 had what looks like an E B, possibly E R
Thanks for the info on where to look

CF would be C = May F = 1937
Neither EB or ER would be reasonable codes. E for the month equals October which is fine but B for the year is 1933 and R is 1924, both too early.

On the Remington Repair code tab, couldn't ER also be 1968 ?

Emailed the dealer through Gunbroker and he won't respond to my questions. Probably a good reason to pass on this gun. I think I can eventually do better but it might take awhile and I'm not one with alot of patience.

Sure, but by then Remington was out of the Parker repair business. Repair codes are a date code followed by a 3 and Remington stamped them all over, where ever they could find space on the barrel flats.