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Remington factory records
Who holds this maker's production records today, whether a serial table exists at all, and what it costs to have the archive read them.
Remington is the most instructive disaster in American gun records. For decades the company's official answer to a records request was the flat statement "There are no Remington production records!" — and it was not quite true. The original production and shipping ledgers, the ones that would let you date a gun the way Cody dates a Winchester, were lost or destroyed decades ago by persons unknown. What survived was kept out of reach: the Remington Research Team, fourteen people granted access to the Ilion and Lonoke plants, gathered material over decades and it now forms an archive of roughly 140 linear feet held by the Remington Society of America. The society is having it professionally scanned, and by its own account had completed about 40% of the priority material. Remington does not letter guns.
Who holds the records today
Covers ~140 linear feet of material, partly digitised
Serial table published by the maker?
No.
No manufacturer serial table exists for most Remington models. The often-quoted 870 and Model 700 date codes are a separate, barrel-stamp system, not a serial table.
Archive letter
The Remington Society maintains the archive and answers research enquiries; it is not a lettering service.
Observed 2026-10-14 — confirm with the archive before ordering.
Can a serial number date a Remington?
From the serial number alone, generally no — and that is the honest answer rather than a gap in this site. There is no published table to compare the number against, so any year you find online for this maker comes from a secondary reconstruction, and those are exactly as reliable as their author.
Dating then rests on what is on the gun: the maker's marking and address, the model and its catalogued period, proof marks and their era, patent dates, and the manufacturer's own model history.
Reference work
Remington .22 Rimfire Rifles — Gyde & Marcot.
Date a firearm by its serial number
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