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Rem 700 mfg date from serial number

JSJ GunshopJSJ Gunshop Member Posts: 17 ✭✭
edited December 2013 in Ask the Experts
I have a Remington 700 action only. No barrel so can't determine age. It has a six digit serial number; 246XXX. Can you help with the date of manufacture?
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  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you will have to call Remington.
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  • Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    As noted, since the date references for Remingtons involve a code stamped on the barrel, thee isn't a readily available dating system for the serial numbers- EXCEPT; The numbering of M700s started in their year of introduction 1962 and as far as I know, were at least somewhat linear regarding their sequence, then following the GCA 1968 the mfgs were required to have a unique number for each gun. So stamping a M700 as the 1000th one made as 1000 was no longer acceptable because there was also a M721 and a M740 that may have also had #1000. So after GCA1968 the mfgs had to have much more involved serial numbers, which is why they started adding letters and series numbers in addition to the "regular number".

    Since your serial number is just a regular number it would have been made prior to implementation of GCA1968, and given that it was nearly a quarter-million in production, that would put it fairly close to the end of the "regular" numbers.

    Remington would be the final source, but I'd bet that it was made in 1967 or '68.
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