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In those years when a gun was ordered from Remington with a Poly-Choke, the device was milled integral with the barrel -Īnd there would be no choke marking on the barrel. With a Full choke marking on your barrel it is safe to say the Poly-Choke was an after-market installation.
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The Model 11-48 and "The Sportsman 48" didn't appear until the 1949 catalogues. was still cataloguing the Model 11 and "The Sportsman" in their 1948 catalogues. They also dropped the separate serial number sequences for "The Sportsman" and began numbering them right along with the Model 11s. The model number represents the specific model of the shotgun, while the serial number is unique to each individual shotgun.
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revised the roll-stamping to one bird on each side of the receiver and started putting it on the Model 11 receivers as well, and they began roll-stamping Model 11 or "The Sportsman" on the breech-bolt at about this time. Is the model number the same as the serial number on a Remington shotgun No, the model number and serial number are different. In the 1937-8 time frame, Remington Arms Co., Inc. From then on they were serial numbered in the same sequences as the Model 11 and the Model 11 receivers got the one bird roll-stamping. In the early 1930s, "The Sportsman" had a three-bird roll-stamping on the sides of the receiver and the name "The Sportsman" was roll-stamped on the side of the receiver. In late 1937 Remington dropped the separate serial number sequences for the 12- & 16-gauge The Sportsman and the 20-gauge in 1938. "The Sportsman" serial numbers were usually preceeded by an S. In 1931, the 16-gauge Model 11 was introduced with serial numbers beginning at 1,500,000 and "The Sportsman" was introduced in 16-gauge with serial numbers beginning at 200,000 and 12-gauge with serial numbers beginning at 500,000. begins in March 1937 at serial number 14,149 and ends February 14, 1938, at serial number 16,753. Models have serial numbers from approximately 20,000 - 213,000 Occams Razor might cut in this direction. Model 11 20-gauges had serial numbers beginning at 1,000,000 and "The Sportsman" 20-gauges had serial numbers beginning low, 1?, 100?, 1000? The old between the wars factory ledger, available on our web site, is missing the first page of "The Sportsman" 20-gauges. "The Sportsman" was introduced in 1930 as a three-shot version of the five-shot Model 11 20-gauge also introduced that year.