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Originally Posted by Pete Lester
I have no doubt your gun is an original GHE Skeet gun. I have it's sibling 237880. Oddly enough my letter says it was started in June '34, shipped to warehouse Jan '35 and shipped to it's first owner in Mar '36. The barrels are stamped on left side of the lug L E, Feb '36.
Two things, it looks to me like the barrel date stamp was not applied by Remington until the gun was being prepared to ship to a buyer given my letter and stamping??? I also think it was likely your gun was returned to Remington in May '41 and was probably rebarreled at the request of the owner because they wanted to change/increase the choke constriction and that could only be achieved with a new set of barrels. Just supposition on my part and if so still original IMO. I will try to post a picture of my letter and barrel stamp tomorrow when I have better light for picture taking.
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J.B,
Thanks !
Mine was one of 3 guns in consecutive order all with " skeet" options. The odds of this being returned and remarried with exact length barrels would be unusual versus a repair return.
It is amazing, based on some of the responses here, that if " only " 46 GHE skeet guns exist per TPS, they certainly have a great following.