Remington Society

If you are talking about a hammerless double barrel shotgun marked Remington Arms Co. on the sides of the receiver, with a serial number of 125,950 then it is a Model 1894 made circa 1902. The Model 1894 was made in 10-, 12-, and 16-gauges in a variety of barrel lengths and in grades from A-Grade (t...

From time to time one can find old Remington Catalogues from the period of your gun, and even instruction sheets and other advertising brochures on ebay.

Designed by the famous John M. Browning, "The Remington Autoloading Gun" was intorduced in the 1906 Remington Arms Co. catalogue. Around the time Remington Arms Company and Union Metalic Cartridge Company were combined in 1911, it became the Remington Model 11. There is a good article on t...

Jay is correct, from that serial number and your description it would appear you have a KD- or KED-Grade Remington Model 1900 made in 1901. The Remington Model 1900 was a cheaper version of the fine Remington Model 1894. Both Models were built on two patents issued on the same day, Oct 30, 1894 -- N...

"The Sportsman" was a three-shot version of the 5-shot Model 11. "The Sportsman" had a different magazine tube and forearm, and wasn't introduced until the early 1930s. There is not much demand out there for these old square-back Remingtons. Unless in a high grade or a Trap or Sk...

Keep watching ebay. One is bound to show up. I picked one up I needed new in the box, postmarked Apr 1, 49, Ilion, NY. off ebay last summer.

I think the U in front of the serial number is a Remington inventory letter like the P in front of the serial numbers on Model 1894s, and the Q on Model 1900s.

Nice looking gun.

For those of you interested in the old Autoloading Repeating Rifles there is a 1907 catalogue specifically for them up for auction in ebay --

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 49745&rd=1

If you can see a pattern it is real Damascus. No U.S. makers are known to have used a fake pattern. That only seems to have occured on the very cheapest of Belgian imports. On 98% of the Remington Model 1894s the chokes were not marked as such, but the pellet count for the test patterns fired at the...

Check this out. http://www.remington.com/magazine/history/m11.htm

All the info you'd ever want to know on the Model 11 and Sportsman.

The Model 1889 is the only hammer double made by Remington Arms Co. All the earlier hammer doubles were made by E. Remington & Sons. In the October 1894 catalogue and the November 1895 catalogue the Model 1889 is offered in 10- and 12-gauges with 30- and 32-inch barrels. The next catalogue I hav...