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Just bought a Rem. Mod. 17 with 28" Full Choke barrel for 220 bucks. Gun needs stock refinish, has about 90% original blue and seems in good working order. Think I paid too much? Been looking for one for a long time. Serial #379xx. When was it made? Thanks loads! Chopperlump

#117xx is from 9/25. What are the first two letters on the left side of the barrel breech?

Good Price.

Rob

Remington Model 17 -- Remington Arms Co., Inc. manufactured approximately 73,000 Model 17 pump shotguns from 1921 to 1933. While production stopped in 1933, they were actually cleaning up and selling guns out of inventory until 1941. The gun was based on a John M. Browning Patent No. 1,143,170
granted June 15, 1915. However, Remington was gearing up for WW-I at that time and it would be six more years before the gun came out. Remington's designer John D. Pedersen made design refinements in 1919 (applications filed Sept. 15, 1919, Patent No. 1,429,621 granted Sept. 19, 1922 and Patent No. 1,487,799 granted Mar. 25, 1924) and G.H. Garrison made further improvements. It was the patents on these improvements that forced Ithaca to wait until 1937 to bring out their copy of this gun, though Ithaca had actually built some guns by 1932. Actually Pedersen has so many patent applications filed in that 1919 time frame it is hard to tell which really apply!

Researcher,

Is the Rem M29 pump just a 12ga version of the M17 or an entirely different gun?

Rob

The Model 29 is really more of a coil spring version of the earlier Remington Repeating Shotgun/Model 1908/Model 10.

Anybody else own one? I like the way they look and handle and the nice workmanship --- but are they as good as I hope they are? Thanks loads. Chopper

They are BETTER than you hope they are. I've owned one for about thirty seasons, and while it doesn't see much use except as a kids gun safety or loaner gun these days, my personal best day of 5 woodcock and 5 grouse (a MN daily limit) has been achieved with only one gun-that model 17. Never a problem, excepting the vented Cutts that was installed at the time I bought it (patterned well, but TOO DAMN LOUD) and I sent it off to Stan Baker for bore work and screw in chokes in the late 1970s to eliminate that problem.
Tim Frazier has a few, and I think they have pushed his doubles from the go-to lineup. They are THAT good. Use it in good health. Oh yea, I forgot to mention, I had to pay $50 whole dollars for mine in 1977, and Stan got $99 from me for the choke/bore work. Times have changed.
Best,
Ted

Mines a two barrel set, both numbered to the gun, 26" Mod & 30" Full. Paid $250 this past Nov. Needs to be restocked or an extension put on, the old pad crumbled.

Congratulations Chopper. They are nice guns, and I'll go so far as saying the Model 17 is almost as good as an early Model 37 Ithaca.

I would say $220 is a really good price.

Regards

GKT

Where do I start! The model 17 has pretty much made me sell everything else in my gun cabinet to include my 1933 Fox 20g! Sounds a little over the top but I really like these guns allot and have bought three in the last year.

They are one of the few small gauge guns made specifically for a gauge, the model 42 comes to mind as well. Compare it to an Ithaca 20g and the difference will be obvious. Ithaca's design is taller and not as trim as the 17. Similar yes, the same no.

The price you got seems pretty good and you can pay a whole lot more. The solid rib guns are much more pricey.

Tim