Remington pump 16 guage

grandpas

My Grandfather just passed on his old shotgun the markings on the barrel look like wxx and if im correct by Remington website I think the gun was made in Jul of 1950 but the only problem I have is most pictures I have found all have the cut pattern in the stock or the forward hand guard. Mine has the ribbed forward hand guard and no markings on the stock. It is a wing master with a solid barrel no vents. It has more sentimental value than anything but I am curious if it has any monetary value. The serials start in 6900s could anyone tell me what the gun is worth. It has its battle marks on the stock and few rust spots on the barrel and receiver also wondering would I take away from the value if I re blued the gun.
Thanks in advance

wpage

Values range dependent on condition from $150.00 to $350.00 Hold off on reblueing better to refinish the butt stock with tung oil and clean up the rest.

Herschel

grandpas, I believe your shotgun is a model 31A, standard grade. These had the plain butt stock and the fore-end had grooves running around the sides and bottom. Higher grades would have had checkering. You can remove the rust by taking very oily (machine oil or gun oil) OOOO steel wool and rubbing over the rust. Using dry steel wool on dry metal will remove the bluing. The oil will let the steel wool slide over the bluing without removing it. Even though your shotgun is not a collector's item, as time passes and more become interested in Remington shotguns it might have some collector interest. Rebluing will cost you money and will diminish the value of the shotgun.

Ambrose

I believe WXX translates to August, 1951. While the model 31 is listed in the 1950 Stoeger's catalog, it is not listed in the 1951 issue. Of course, Remington could still have been cleaning up old stock and built some as late as mid-1951. It may also be a model 870. The first issue of Stoeger's that listed the 870 was 1951. Both the 31 and the 870 are plainly marked as to model on the left side of the receiver. Also both models, in the early years, in field grade had un-cherckered stocks and ribbed fore ends.

If that gun were mine, I would clean up the rust, as has been said, and go over the stock with a good furniture cleaner but I would not refinish anything. It would mean more to me to wonder how Grandpa got that dent or that scratch than to have an old gun that I tried to make look like new. (I've still got the shotgun that Dad shot the end out of his duck boat with--I've still got the boat, too!)

I have a 16 ga. Remington 31 that I hunt with occasionally. My favorite is a 16 ga. Ithaca model 37. So take Grandpa's gun out and hunt with it once in a while; I think you'll find it adds something to the hunt.