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I also have one of these with 30" in similar fine condition. Ser. # 205710. Also has the "1" to the left of this number. In addition, has 243 on frame, forend lug, and forend iron. Barrel lug marks 40 right, 44 left. Barrels have "1" with an arrow pointing back toward chambers on each. There is also a "74" (4 much smaller than the 7) on the left barrel, so from the other posts that means 7 lbs, 4 oz. Snow geese are here! Send me a camo Benelli 28" semiauto with comfortech and mag. tube extension and we can trade.

Yeah, mine has the "1" and the backwards pointing arrow on each barrel too. I think your 243 numbers are for assembly matching. Hal, since you're on the doublegunshop site I'm thinking you'd rather the Remy than a camo B gun. Silvers

FYI - here are some quick pics of the gun. Silvers

Thank you Silver for the infor. and pictures. Its sure a nice piece and I like the one taken with HTT mnagazine.. I'd heard of HTT magazine but never saw it. With all respect to every one I still feel some thing is amiss to reconcile the Rem numbers on the barrel lug with choke restrictions you wrote. Does any one knowing in shotgun ballistisc think a 009 tighter resriction will put only 4 more pellets in the ring at 40 yards? Even with no. 8 size pellets? Using 310 and 350 sounds right for the restrictions but 331 and 335 doesn't cut it no matters what is believed from old hanging tags.

I have a 1889 that I shoot every week at skeet and SCs- I opened the chokes to what I wanted. Yours may have been changed somewhere in time. Paul

Yeah Silvers, but I can't get the thought out of my mind of a couple dozen snow geese dropping out of the air after I empty 6-7 shots into a rising flock of 10,000. Just trying to help with the overpopulation problem. Have about 3 million staged just south of ND today. Guess its back to the old Nitro Special.

PS Hope I am not hijacking this post, but in order to help with the snow goose overpopulation problem, I have been trying to get the Fish & Wildlife Service to allow use of original shotguns larger than 10-bore and allow hunting during the crepuscle, but to no avail. Its the enforcement boys that fight it the most, not the biologists.

Yeah Silvers, but I can't get the thought out of my mind of a couple dozen snow geese dropping out of the air after I empty 6-7 shots into a rising flock of 10,000. Just trying to help with the overpopulation problem. Have about 3 million staged just south of ND today. Guess its back to the old Nitro Special.

PS Hope I am not hijacking this post, but in order to help with the snow goose overpopulation problem, I have been trying to get the Fish & Wildlife Service to allow use of original shotguns larger than 10-bore and allow hunting during the crepuscle, but to no avail. Its the enforcement boys that fight it the most, not the biologists.

Silvers,

You might want to check out this thread from The Remington Society of America board on the "Decarbonized", "Remington" and "Ordnance" steel used on Remington doubles.

http://www.remingtonsociety.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2097

Hal, wow that sounds like some geese! Your post reminds me of the huge flocks we saw years ago hunting for snows and blues up in the Hudson Bay country. I see you are in ND and so assume they are migrating geese headed north, not local lazy ones that stay year-round? The migratory ones have been honking here in PA over the past week or so. I was out with our dog for last call yesterday before bed and judging from the honking it was a huge flock passing over in the darkness. I'm north of you in Sask every year and although it's for deer hunting and the tail end of the migration we always see lots of birds on your flyway.

Researcher, yep you read my mind. I wondered about the decarbonized steel and as usual you have the information. Thank you.

Silvers