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Where’s the Remington gurus around here?? Have a question...

I bought a beautiful Rem 700 BDL in .243 today. Nice wood stock, jeweled bolt, iron sights and front site is hooded. The guy I got it from said it’s a 70’s model.
I know you can look at the barrel code to get approximate year of manufacture, but this gun doesn’t have any letters for that. All it has there is “64.”

I can’t call Remington (closed) to get that info so is there any other way to find out when my gun was made??

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69-70 based on serial number. Only a couple hundred off from my c grade.

Serial numbers listed in Lacy’s book on the 700 show sn:6262811 in Aug ‘69 and sn:6263147 in Aug ‘69 as well.

Your barrel should have the two letter assembly date code, month/year, stamped on the barrel. If it doesn't, the barrel may have been set back or it could be a replacement barrel. I sent a 1960's vintage 700 BDL to Remington in 1984 to have the 6mm barrel replaced with a new, factory installed, 250 Savage barrel. I don't recall if it had assembly code stamps on the barrel and I no longer have the rifle, so I can't check.

The action is from 69 atleast. Close enough to mine. I do know my barrel never had an assembly date code and it is original.

The following serial number information is for Remingtion firearms manufactured after 1921

Remingtons 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. The following letters correspond to the months of the year, for example B=January, L= February and so on:

B – L – A – C – K – P – O – W – D – E – R – X

Barrel Code Location Diagram
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Serial Numbers by date (factory record book)

Serial Numbers by date (factory record book)

1903 and 1903A3 Production and Serial No table.

1903A4 Snipers.

A few other serial lists…

B – Jan L – Feb A – Mar C – Apr K – May P – Jun
O – Jul W – Aug D – Sep E – Oct R – Nov X – Dec
M – 1921 N – 1922 P – 1923 R – 1924 S – 1925
T – 1926 U – 1927 W – 1928 X – 1929 Y – 1930
Z – 1931 A – 1932 B – 1933 C – 1934 D – 1935
E – 1936 F – 1937 G – 1938 H – 1939 J – 1940
K – 1941 L – 1942 MM – 1943 NN – 1944 PP – 1945
RR – 1946 SS – 1947 TT – 1948 UU – 1949 WW – 1950
XX – 1951 YY – 1952 ZZ – 1953 A – 1954 B – 1955
C – 1956 D – 1957 E – 1958 F – 1959 G – 1960
H – 1961 J – 1962 K – 1963 L – 1964 M – 1965
N – 1966 P – 1967 R – 1968 S – 1969 T – 1970
U – 1971 W – 1972 X – 1973 Y – 1974 Z – 1975
I – 1976 O – 1977 Q – 1978 V – 1979 A – 1980
B – 1981 C – 1982 D – 1983 E – 1984 F – 1985
G – 1986 H – 1987 I – 1988 J – 1989 K – 1990
L – 1991 M – 1992 N – 1993 O – 1994 P – 1995
Q – 1996 R – 1997 S – 1998 T – 1999 (*) U – 2000 (*)
V – 2001 (*) W – 2002 X – 2003 Y – 2004 Z – 2005
A – 2006 B – 2007 C – 2008 D – 2009 E – 2010
F – 2011 G – 2012
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.

Using these barrel codes to date a shotgun is somewhat unreliable, as shotgun barrels are often interchanged at random. One needs to be sure that the barrel is original to the gun before trusting the Barrel Code listing, above.

(*) On 8/9/99, stopped stamping the barrels with the date code. They continued to mark the date code on the end flap of the shipping box. They resumed stamping the date code on the barrel on 10/1/01.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Remington-700-A-History-and-Users-Manual-1962-1987-by-John-F-Lacy-1989-A/143916332031?hash=item218214f3ff:g:lYIAAOSwygFf~dp6

The Lacy book is a little out of my price range. Here's one on Fleabay $500

The date codes on the barrels are not always so easy to read. I just purchased a couple of 760 30-06's. It appears that the older one was built 1955. The newer one 1972. But the date code on the 1972 one is suspect.

They had a Beaver10 like method of date coding , didn’t they ? LOL



Bob