S/N 655243 likely falls in the spread of serial numbers undergoing assembly at the time of suspension.įerris makes no mention of any special contract to supply rifles to China. So some serial numbers beyond S/N 647358 were most assuredly assembled into complete rifles. One should note that Remington rifles were not assembled in serial number sequence. Your receiver was manufactured on or about February 21, 1919. Your receiver was likely one of those spare parts. Hes asking for 500.00 (well 499.95) still havent decided if I want to go back and make him an offer. Its completed but the bore looks dark and most of the metal is good and Id say 80 of it blue is still there but, there is a bit of surface rust near the front sight about a patch 2: long on one side and a bit on the upper band. His book indicates that Remington assembled 647,358 complete rifles, but received payment for an unspecified number of spare parts (including receivers) that were in process at the time of contract termination. ran into a Remington Model of 1917 at a gun store today. The last number recorded in his serial number and barrel date table is S/N 655243. Ferris published an excellent reference book on the Model 1917 rifle several years ago. You do indeed have an unusually high Remington serial number.Ĭ.S. MODEL OF 1917 'ALL MATCHING' AND 'VET BRINGBACK' SCARCE. It came to me as a bare receiver in a cosmoline type grease. Winchester 1906 PUMP ACTION RIFLE CALIBER 22 SHORT-LONG-LONG RIFLE MFG 1917 C&R OK.

The number is 6766xx.I have been told of a contract to supply China? Any help with identifying date of manufacture or any other info would be appreciated. I have a 1917 Remington receiver that appears to have a very high serial# that I can't locate in any reference material that I have available.

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