Remington Dates of Manufacture (after 1921)

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Remington Dates of Manufacture

The following serial number information is for Remingtion firearms manufactured after 1921
Remingtons manufactured after 1921 have a code located on the left side of the barrel near the frame that identifies the year and month of manufacture. The following letters correspond to the months of the year, for example B=January, L= February and so on: B-L-A-C-K-P-O-W-D-E-R-X

Barrel Code Location Diagram

Serial Numbers by date (factory record book) 1903 and 1903A3 Production and Serial No table. 1903A4 Snipers. B - Jan O - Jul L - Feb W - Aug A - Mar D - Sep C - Apr E - Oct K - May R - Nov P - Jun X - Dec

M - 1921 T - 1926 Z - 1931 E - 1936 K - 1941 RR - 1946 XX - 1951 C - 1956 H - 1961 N - 1966 U - 1971 I - 1976 B - 1981 G - 1986 L - 1991 Q - 1996 A - 2006 F - 2011

N - 1922 U - 1927 A - 1932 F - 1937 L - 1942 SS - 1947 YY - 1952 D - 1957 J - 1962 P - 1967 W - 1972 O - 1977 C - 1982 H - 1987 M - 1992 R - 1997 B - 2007 G - 2012

P - 1923 W - 1928 B - 1933 G - 1938 MM - 1943 TT - 1948 ZZ - 1953 E - 1958 K - 1963 R - 1968 X - 1973 Q - 1978 D - 1983 I - 1988 N - 1993 S - 1998 X - 2003 C - 2008

R - 1924 X - 1929 C - 1934 H - 1939 NN - 1944 UU - 1949 A - 1954 F - 1959 L - 1964 S - 1969 Y - 1974 V - 1979 E - 1984 J - 1989 O - 1994 Y - 2004 D - 2009

S - 1925 Y - 1930 D - 1935 J - 1940 PP - 1945 WW - 1950 B - 1955 G - 1960 M - 1965 T - 1970 Z - 1975 A - 1980 F - 1985 K - 1990 P - 1995 Z - 2005 E - 2010

T - 1999 (*) U - 2000 (*)

V - 2001 (*) W - 2002

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. (*) On 8/9/99, stopped stamping the barrels with the date code. They continued to mark the date code on the end flap of the shipping box. They resumed stamping the date code on the barrel on 10/1/01.