![]() If you want to be sure though, call or email Remington and have them look up the serial number, as Knucklehead211 suggested. ![]() If your 870's barrel has a two-letter code stamped into it near the receiver, you can use that to identify the month and year the barrel was made, which is probably pretty close to when the receiver was manufactured if the gun is brand-new. ![]() If it's a 12ga and the serial number doesn't end in an "A" of a "V", it's probably a magnum receiver. Magnum (3" and shorter) 12ga receivers used to only have serial numbers ending in "M", but now a bunch of different letters are used. 12ga 870 serial numbers end in "V" for 2.75"-only receivers and "A" for super magnum (3.5" and shorter) receivers. The letter there only indicates what length shells the receiver is designed to handle (with the exception of some special-run 870s). If you just bought your 870 brand-new in a store though, it's probably a 2015 or late 2014 gun.Īs for the "P" suffix on the serial number, it doesn't mean you have a Police gun. The "AB" block started in 2005, and while I'm not sure when Remington switched to the "RS" block, I know "RS" serial numbers were going on 870s at least as early as 2011. An "RS" serial number prefix places your gun's manufacturing date solidly in the 21st century probably the 2010s, or maybe the late 2000s, though if it was a 2000s gun, I believe the serial number would probably start with "C", "D", or "AB" instead. I am still keeping an eye on the site though I see every new post, and save those that I plan to respond to.Serial number prefixes indicate a range of dates, not one single year. I specifically took time off one of those jobs today to sit down and catch up on the forum, but I might go quiet for awhile again after this. I saw it the day the thread was started, but this month's been 12 - 14-hour work-days for me, between working a new full-time job, a pre-existing part-time job, and a month-long freelance gig, so I really haven't had time to sit down and write for awhile. I know that if you go to the Remington web site you can look plug in your model 700 Serial number and find out the date it was made. I'd be happy to share what serial numbers I have info on, and if we can gather enough input, I can assemble a sortable/searchable document that will actually be useful for working out the system.īy the way, sorry about the delayed response to this. Would like to know where I can find the dates of manufacture, by serial number if possible, of Remington 870 Wingmaster shotguns. If enough people started sharing their serial number info (even if it's a partial serial, or just the prefix & suffix), with date confirmation from Remington (which isn't always accurate, but they get it right often enough, and blatant mistakes can generally be identified based on other features and supporting checks) alongside the barrel date codes, that could really help nail all this down. So, that video's on standby until I can get more info. I did what I could looking at markings in gun shops and taking notes, but couldn't get enough of a sample size just on my own. of AI&P Tactical, were supportive, but didn't have the specific info I needed. ![]() One forum even deleted some of the discussion about it. I don't know if I posted about it here, but I posted on other, more history/research-oriented forums, and got pretty much no response about it. These prefixes are pretty well understood up through the mid-2000s, but I can't find any definite info on exactly when they switched to the recent "RS" prefix, and now it seems that 2017 or 2018 saw the introduction of a brand-new "CC" prefix, though I'd need to look at more new 870s to confirm that the "CC" code is the new standard prefix, and not a special-case one.Ī year or two back, I started working on pre-production for a video on dating an 870, since it was such a frequent question, and there were no good, complete resources on it online anywhere. Those ranges are roughly 5-year periods, though some are wider or narrower, and some years may be transitional where both prefixes were stamped. 870 serial numbers have letter prefixes (or a lack thereof for very early guns) at the start of the serial number that can be used to narrow down the manufacture date to within a specific range of years.
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