I'm at work today but these are the codes, it's odd but maybe not unusual that an 28xxx gun is marked older than a 11xxx gun.
I'm going to look again at mine tonight. The one I just aquired has other stampings as well that someone told me represent it being sent back to the factory. Does anyone know anything of such codes?
B - Jan -- M - 1921 C - 1934 SS - 1947 G - 1960
L - Feb -- N - 1922 D - 1935 TT - 1948 H - 1961
A - Mar -- P - 1923 E - 1936 UU - 1949 J - 1962
C - Apr -- R - 1924 F - 1937 WW - 1950 K - 1963
K - May -- S - 1925 G - 1938 XX - 1951 L - 1964
P - Jun -- T - 1926 H - 1939 YY - 1952 M - 1965
O - Jul -- U - 1927 J - 1940 ZZ - 1953 N - 1966
W - Aug -- W - 1928 K - 1941 A - 1954 P - 1967
D - Sep -- X - 1929 L - 1942 B - 1955 R - 1968
E - Oct -- Y - 1930 MM - 1943 C - 1956 S - 1969
R - Nov -- Z - 1931 NN - 1944 D - 1957 T - 1970
X - Dec -- A - 1932 PP - 1945 E - 1958 U - 1971
------------B - 1933 RR - 1946 F - 1959 W - 1972
Using barrel codes (such as those listed above) to date the manufacture are reliable on Remington rifles, as the company rarely changed barrels on a customer's rifle.
Using these barrel codes to date a shotgun is somewhat unreliable, as shotgun barrels are often interchanged at random. One needs to be sure that the barrel is original to the gun before trusting the Barrel Code listing, above.
Last edited by Tim Frazier; 01/26/07 09:12 AM.
