REMINGTON REPAIR CODES
 

Hi All.:)
Can any members tell me if my Rem-vhe has any repair codes stamped on it
and if so what are they. Will they indicate date type of repair ect'.
All the best Dave.:bigbye:

P.S. I know who ordered it and when but that is all so far.:banghead:

That gun should have a Remington manufacture date code, (two letters) on the barrel flats. A "repair code" would be the two letters with a "3" following. I don't see the manufacturing code, but the pictures are a bit dark.

Codes
 

Hi Bill.:)
I can not see two letters only one a C with a 3 gun number is 240830 -1937
rem.
All the best Dave.:bigbye:
Click on pics to open up to larger size.

The gun is littered with European proof marks, but I don't see any Remington repair codes.

Hi Dave.
No codes then is it safe to say it's never been back to Remington ?
It would be nice to know at what date all the European proof marks were
stamped on it must be arfter 1937.

All the best Dave.:bigbye:

I looked at one Remington gun and found the manufacturing code on the right barrel flat to the right of the serial number hard against the lug in small faint letters. Those Brits may have ground yours down when they ground down your Parker Overload Proof stamps. I wonder why they don't put their proof marks right on the outside of the barrel like they do on Boss over unders?

UK PROOF
 

Hi Bill.:)
Thank goodness they did not put them on the barrels i think it ruins a gun:crying:.

All the best Dave.:bigbye:

David: The barrels show 12ga with 2 1/2" chambers (the 12-65) and may have possibly been reproved as required in Europe if it was shipped there or taken there by a G.I. I can't get the picture to zoom up enough to identify the marks for sure but I think them to be English. The serial and grade marking look like Parker which leads me to believe the other stuff is a re-proof. I don't see any Remington marks of any kind but I'm just learning like most of us. Lee.:bigbye:

2 5/8 Chambers for 2 1/2 inch shells
 

This gun was apparently re proofed to European standards - 65 mm = 2.56 inch, 70mm = 2.76 inch. A 2 5/8 inch chamber would have to be proofed at 65 mm.

Best, Austin

Thanks Lee for the help as you say it could be a reproved gun.
All the best Dave.

As far as I can tell, the Remington repair codes are of little use to us. They give us the date that Remington did some work but nothing more. I have a Parker with two repair codes and I asked a person at Remington what was done to the gun giving the ser# and date give by the code..... Remington can't tell me because they don't have those records. I took a chance and contacted the Remington museum and they looked and couldn't give me any information either.

Too bad they can't tell us what took place, information lost to father time I guess.

PGCA home page has, on the left side of the page, a column of info on certain info.
Page down to the Remington Parker info--it is rather sparse but that is all that I have found.
Talked to Remington yesterday, they say that they have no info

Where i find repair codes useful is just to suggest that some repair work was in fact done by Remington.

Ie: if a gun has reblued barrels with a weep hole drilled and repair codes, likely remington.

If a gun books as a meriden built gun with double triggers and it has a Parker single in it now and also has repair codes, likely remington.

If a gun left meriden as an extractor gun and now has ejectors and repair codes, likely remington.

If you met all your girlfriends at family reunions, likely a redneck.

Birmingham proof marks, post 1954. (BNP surmounted by a crown) The R surmounted by a crown is the post 1925 repair proof mark, also for Birmingham.

Note the small "crossed swords" symbol. If the letters on either side of the swords are U B, then that proof was applied in 1969.

On second glance, the letters look like U C, which is 1993...

...:rotf:... I like how you sneaked that one in there Brian.