G- Whiz!

[Jeff K.]

I just looked at my late Remington 1/2 frame and vhe 410, they both have the heart and star stamp on the barrels.

[Researcher]

The heart and the sunburst are a couple of the most common Remington era inspector's (?) marks. Russ's gun has an XH date code -- X = December H = 1939. My 16-gauge 1-frame has an XJ date code -- X = December J = 1940 (edited) -- and it has the heart and sunburst marks.

241968 01a 26-inch, 16-gauge, XJ X = December, J = 1940.jpg

There are a lot of other marks I've recorded as well --

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241331 EG E = Oct., G = 1938.jpg

240305 XG X = December G = 1938.jpg

240003 BF B = January F = 1937.jpg

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242353 LL L = February, L = 1942.jpg

There are more, but not sure how many pictures I can attach.

[Researcher]

One more thing, I've recorded the Ilion grip caps on 1-frame and larger, but I've yet to see anything but Meriden grip caps on 0-frames and smaller.

[Cold Spring]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

The heart and the sunburst are a couple of the most common Remington era inspector's (?) marks. Russ's gun has an XH date code -- X = December H = 1939. My 16-gauge 1-frame has an XJ date code -- X = December J = 1941 -- and it has the heart and sunburst marks.

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So Dave, on the two date codes you cited, are those the respective production dates, or dates of return to Remington for service or whatever?

[Dean Romig]

My grandson, Cam's, VH 20 gauge on the 0-frame, No. 228145 was sent to Remington to be refurbished in the 1960's and got a new butt stock and grip cap then.
Anyway, I presume they did not send it off to DelGrego to do the work. The whole thing was facilitated by Orvis in Manchester, VT.

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[Researcher]

I mistyped in my post. The XJ on my 16-gauge should be X = December J = 1940. The date code with no number after it I take as the production date for the barrels. With a number, usually 3, after it is a repair code.

[Dean Romig]

Hmmm… more cause for confusion…

J could be either 1940 or 1962…

Thoughts on this??


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[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

So Dave, on the two date codes you cited, are those the respective production dates, or dates of return to Remington for service or whatever?

Without the 3 suffix Frank, those are dates of manufacture of the gun.




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[Cold Spring]

Thank you Dean and Dave for your replies. The gun I saw with the heart stamp also had a sunburst stamp, but didn’t have a suffix with the date code. Thus I’m assuming the date code indicates completion of the gun or barrels.

[William Woods]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

My grandson, Cam's, VH 20 gauge on the 0-frame, No. 228145 was sent to Remington to be refurbished in the 1960's and got a new butt stock and grip cap then.
Anyway, I presume they did not send it off to DelGrego to do the work. The whole thing was facilitated by Orvis in Manchester, VT.

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The buttstock on your grandson's V grade looks much nicer than the typical V grade. When it was sent back to Remington was it ordered with a higher grade wood or, as I have read here, did Remington just use a higher grade than Parker?