However, you won’t be using that serial number with the Remington Serial/Barrel Number Lookup app because that number won’t tell you the month and year it was manufactured. The two-letter code on the barrel is part of a special coding system designed by Remington to identify the manufacturing dates of all their shotguns and rifles.

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(See References 1) Because Remington repeated letters for several of its model years, you will need to compare this information against the chart. For example, a rifle could have a model year of either 1930 or 1956. However, if you know that Remington began producing this model in 1940, you can determine that the 'made-on' date is 1956. Remington added serial numbers in 1967 staring with 400,000. Since year codes are often duplicated, a code letter on a gun with a serial number would be later than 1967 while one without a serial number would be a year prior to 1967. Remington added serial numbers in 1967 staring with 400,000. Your WUU (Aug1949) with a 122xxx serial lends weight to Literalist's direction that my 31 was also made in 1947 but was reworked by Remington (the 3 near ZZ) and re-blued. He also suggests my barrel may have been from a 1953 gun BZZ (Jan1953) before it was reworked, hence the second BZZ stamp on it. Remington Chart Serial Number Info Funker 6 new member Funker 6 Jan 24, 2004 3 2004-01-24T15:40 Thanks Demon Yes The mark on the grip is a rectangle,but I could not make out what was inside the rectangle.Alright Im getting some place.Okay now if somebody with that serial number info can help.

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