

Rtt = November 1948, as TT was only used for one year. Es = October 1925, 1969, or 1998, so once again some further detective work would have to be done.

Pa = June 1923, 1954, 1980, or 2006, was used for all four years, so some further detective work would have to be done in this instance. Remington resumed stamping date codes on barrels in October 2001. They, however, continue to mark date code on the end flap of the shipping box. In August of 1999, Remington stopped stamping barrels with date codes. As an added bonus to Remington being able to provide year of manufacture, they should also be able to provide grade firearm leave factory as. If these additional pieces of information still do not clear up the year of manufacture, or if there is any confusion in general over date of manufacture / factory date codes, contacting Remington Customer Service with firearms serial number will be require. After that, one brings into play what is know of history, such as year first acquire. This sleuthing is accomplished in part by first determining years that your specific firearm was manufacture. So little sleuthing may have to be done to determine the exact year firearm was manufacture. Note - Some of these year letters repeat, as can be seen below. B = January L = February = March C = April K = May P = June O = July W = August D = September E = October R = November X = December next letter or letters will correspond to year manufacture. These twelve letters correspond to twelve months in year, and are month code. The first character of sequence will always be one of these letters: b, L, A, C, K, P, O, W, D, E, R, X. There will be combination of two or three letters representing the month and year of manufacture. They are located on the left side of the barrel, just ahead of receiver. These codes are fairly simple and straightforward to read. Or by using factory date codes on the barrel of firearm. That is by contacting good folks at Remingtons Customer Service section with serial number. There are two ways that someone can determine the make On date of their Remington firearm.

Example of actual barrel date code - RJ - stamp on Remington model 870 Express shotgun barrel made in November 1989. Example of actual barrel date code - CH - stamp on Remington model 700 variant made in April 2013. Example of actual barrel date code - EJ - stamp on Remington model 700 variant made in October 1989.
