I love the old Remingtons humpbacks, regardless whether they are pre-model 11s or are Model 11s. Why not post a few pictures of your gun showing all these features? I'd sure like to see it. In fact, the real early Remington autoloaders that I've seen have often been confused with early Browning A-5's because they did not say Remington on the barrel. Serial Numbers by date (factory record book) 19A3 Production and Serial No table. The barrels of all the real early ones that I've seen have been plain to the point that nobody has been able to tell if they were actually original to the gun, or were added to the gun later, because none identified Remington as the manufacturer. In 1913 it was given the Model 12 identification. The Remington 742 Woodsmaster was produced from 1960 to 1980, so its age could range from a minimum of 41 years to a maximum of 61 years. The model 12s have a small button on the bottom of the action slide metal behind the wood forearm. Initial disassemble, Location and installation of the cartridge retainer. The later larger head number 18591 was used. (Remington Society) Originally the Model 12 was called 'The New 22 Repeater'. The old part number of 327 was for the scalloped screw (which used the same lock screw 112 as the model 12. Every Remington was numbered back to the 1st Model Remington-Beals revolver in 1857. They never skipped a year with serial numbers. It didn't become the Model 11 until 1911.) All of the very early guns like this that I've seen do not have the flying duck and flying pheasant rollmarks on the receiver like the later Model 11's have, and they do not have Model 11 rollmarked onto the breechbolt like the later Model 11's do. The serial numbers started at 0 in 1909 and ended with 40818, 1910 started at 48936. (From 1905 until 1911 the Browning patent automatic shotgun that Remington made was simply called the Remington Autoloading Shotgun. NUMBER ON THE BOTTOM OF THIS FORM ALONG WITH THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF ANY 12-GAUGE REMINGTON MODEL 870, 1 100, 1 1-87, 3200 AND SPORTSMAN 58, OR SPORTSMAN 12-A OR. I don't claim to be an expert, but all of the Remington "Model 11" 12 guage shotguns that I've ever seen or heard of that have six digit serial numbers located on the bottom of the receiver have been very early guns I think some of them and maybe all of them that I've seen were made even before the gun was called the Model 11.
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