

#Remington rand 1911a1 us army serial number serial number#
Remington Rand M1911A1 serial number 984284 - right side profile. The 'P' proof mark is located near the magazine release and on top of the slide, in front of the rear sight. Remington Rand M1911A1 serial number 984284 - Circa 1943 pistol with Type 2 slide markings.Ĭlose-up of Remington Rand Type 2 slide markings.Ĭlose-up of 'FJA' inspector's mark. They resumed stamping the date code on the barrel on 10/1/01. One authority I consulted indicates this is early 1944 production while a second indicated its a number from any time in 1944 or 1945. Last week, I purchased what purports to be a wartime production Remington Rand 1911A1. They continued to mark the date code on the end flap of the shipping box. Hello Ive just registered with the 1911 Forum and this is my first post. (*) On 8/9/99, stopped stamping the barrels with the date code. One needs to be sure that the barrel is original to the gun before trusting the Barrel Code listing, above. Using these barrel codes to date a shotgun is somewhat unreliable, as shotgun barrels are often interchanged at random.

Using barrel codes (such as those listed above) to date the manufacture are reliable on Remington rifles, as the company rarely changed barrels on a customer's rifle. The following letters correspond to the months of the yearī - L - A - C - K - P - O - W - D - E - R - Xġ - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 Remington's manufactured after 1921 have a code located on the left side of the barrel near the frame that identifies the year and month of manufacture. Here is some information that you can get from you serial number after 1921
