No need to place a ser# on a bbl if it has no number on a frame to match it up too. The number under the bbl code stamping is a matching ser# to what would have been the frame ser# at the time the gun was made and proofed at the factory.

I supposed more than a few frames & parts left the back door of the Illion Works in lunch bags and under coats.Ī heavy refinish on the frame may have removed it too. Model 10, Model 29, 17, 31, 11,all their repeating shotguns were always serial numbered. It should be ser#'d, that's the way they were mfg'd. Maybe the bottom of the frame just ahead of the carrier. The frame ser# on the early guns may be on the front edge flat of the frame like the early Ithaca 37's, Or perhaps the lower canted edge next to the trigger group. None of which are to be confused with the BBl code in looking up a mfg date. Several different Suffix letters to denote grades, magnum frame, ect were also used. Remington 870, 700, 1100 Serial/Barrel Number Lookup Remington Serial/Barrel Number Lookup enables you to check when your. That till about '74 or so then I loose track what prefix it was changed to. Those made at the start of the 68 Law and forward used a 'S' prefix letter to the ser#,A letter prefixed ser# for each model mfg'd was a demand of the new law in '68. Ser#'s on 870/Wingmasters made before the '68GCA have no prefix letter,just a number.

The 68GCA brought them all on board in the requirement.

(Center fire rifles and all handguns required ser#'s before '68GCA) Remington always ser#'d the Wingmaster/870.Įven though pre 1968 Fed Law didn't req mfg'rs to ser# shotguns (or 22rf cal long guns),many mfg'rs chose to do so anyway.

Remington 870 serial numbers