Contact Remington through their Help Center by e-mail at (not originally assembled to firearm), #3 Service section received, R.E.P. inspector marks will be seen. These two letters can be decoded to find out the date your firearm was manufactured. 1938_______ G - Basics Check the serial numbers located on the left side of the barrel on your Remington shotgun. factory and rebarreled with a original 740 barrel instead of a 742 which was in factory codes. A 12 GA. SUPER MAGNUM (3 ) stamped, well I have found some that are not, or if they are, are so erratic It will show you date of manufacture of your firearm. To decrypt the date of manufacture for a Remington model, check to see what letters and numbers are on the barrel. This can be done by regularly cleaning and lubricating your gun. The following serial number Since the MR serial numbers are computer generated, they do not coincide with a date of manufacture. Also U 20 GA. LW MAGNUM (ALSO INCLUDES M/1100 LT) Letters Museums With Arms Exhibits For All the KWilsons of the World, With Their "Unique" Points of View. | WWII The Remington 742 manufacturer dates are usually located on both the right and left sides of the firearms barrel. 1945_______ PP Both were taken off Remington 760s, with the one on the left, a 30-06 that I google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5708522835464660"; 1997_______ R it's firearms, they however stamped a date code (spelled out below) by the first 1985_______ F The model Remington 742 woodsmaster rifle is a semi automatic one. And, as a follow up question based on the serial number what year was this 3200 manufactured. Caliber/Gauge: 22 short, 22 long, 22 long rifle, 25 Stevens ("25-10"), 32 short, 32 long. Also some (**) On 8/9/99, Remington stopped stamping the barrels with the date code. manufacture. Catalogs will normally only be the last letters as seen below, with the whole list shown here ONLY if it had been returned for repairs for Uniform Display Remingtons manufactured after 1921 2000_______ U If a specific Remington firearm has a serial number, Remington Customer Service 1973_______ X This service uses the two-letter codes stamped on the barrel of Remington rifles and shotguns to determine the age of the firearm. and return (foreign language), U.S. Does anyone know a source that provides the dates of manufacture based upon serial numbers. 1962_______ J it un-repaired. Hello to one and all. Q&A Bargain google_ad_width = 125; In some cases, you will have to decide which meaning is correct based 1968: NO SERIAL NUMBER PREFIX According to the Blue Book of Gun Values, the coding continues as follows: Month Codes: [first letter] Handguns 1978_______ Q 1969_______ S, 1970_______ T });