Remington 1894 EEO 16 Ga on Cowan auction...

[Researcher]

Remington's ORDNANCE Steel was always higher priced. When Remington introduce their John M. Browning designed Remington Autoloading Gun and their John D. Pedersen designed Remington Repeating Shotgun, they came with a Remington Steel barrel. For $6.75 extra, one could get your Autoloading Gun or Repeating Gun with an ORDNANCE Steel barrel --





On the Remington Hammerless Doubles the ORDNANCE Steel barrels were the same price as the Damascus barrels on the C-quality and above guns, but were $15 extra on the lower grades. List prices from the 1903-04 Remington Arms Co. catalogue --

Grade A ..............$45
Grade AE.............$50
Grade AR.............$45
Grade AER...........$50
Grade AO.............$60
Grade AEO...........$65
Extra barrels for AEO....$40 Extra barrels for AO...$37.50
Grade B...............$60
Grade BE.............$65
Grade BO.............$75
Grade BEO...........$80
Extra barrels for BEO....$47.50 Extra barrels for BO....$45.00

For all other grades extra barrels were half the price of the gun.

The Remington Steel barrels were only offered on the A-quality guns and after 1900 on the K-grades.

According to Semmer, some very late guns were produced with Krupp Steel barrels, but I've never seen one.

[Bill Murphy]

Without going back and reading the catalog and the thread, I will ask, "Is there something wrong with the EEO grade gun other than the fact that the owner is not the Remington researcher that some of our posters are?" Was not at least one gun seriously underdescribed? It is up to the buyer to find out what he is buying. We learned decades ago not to trust the auction house, either from the shoes of the buyer or the seller.

[Milton Starr]

So lets say I found a nice I mean very nice 1894 BE grade 10 ga for 1100$ would that be a good deal ?

[Bill Murphy]

Yup, Milton, everyone is responsible for his own destiny at a gun auction. Congratulations.