Unusual barrels
 

Please educate me on what’s going on with these found on a GHE in a local gun store recently.

Here’s a guess. Second set of barrels added by Remington at some point as indicated by the date codes?

Is it typical to have no rib markings on Remington barrels?

Late remington replacement barrels. Forend as well.

Yes

What you have here is something that I see as a plus. A gun that was factory refitted with new fluid steel barrels. The gun was likely damascus original. You now have a fluid steel set that are newer by a couple decades. The guns overall value was likely improved with the addition of those barrels. And anyone who knows what they are looking at knows that they were a factory job.

WL3 is a repair done in W = August L = 1942, probably when these late Remington barrels were added to this 1904 vintage Quality GHE.

The DW3 repair code doesn't make sense to me. D = September but W for a year code is 1928 too early, or 1972 too late for Remington doing Parker repairs.

Did Remington put the weep hole in?

That is what they did.

It looks, by the stamped circle with what looks like a V in it but not centered, to me like the barrels were originally manufactured in Meriden well after the gun was made, but were simply pit in stock with no serial number and with a blank rib and went to Ilion with all other spare parts, and the rest of the barrel flats and the rib were stamped by Remington at a later date.

…but this doesn’t explain the weep hole unless the ribs hadn’t yet been added.






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