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The SAAMI meeting where it was suggested that manufacturers begin marking the chamber length on there guns was in 1937. Savage began stating 2 3/4 inch chambers in their 1938 A.H. Fox catalogs and marking the guns like this by 1939 were marking the guns like this --
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Remington got around to it by about 1940 --
1935 Sportsman --
16-gauge Sportsman Skeet Gun 01 WD W = August, D = 1935; PJ3 P = June, J = 1940.jpg
1940 --
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December 1940 Parker --
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