Remington 742 Serial Number Dates; Remington 700 serial number decoder will automatically decode the barrel numbers.Please note that Remington repeats the alphabet approximately every 26 years, therefore you may see several possible manufacturing dates.The first letter on your barrel is the month your firearm was manufactured; the second letter is the year it was manufactured. This means that in some cases, you will have to decide which date is correct based on other details. In some cases, only partial date codes were marked. Remington discontinued stamping barrels with a date code on 8/9/99, the date code was added again on 10/1/01. Barrels made between 8/9/99 and 10/1/01 do not have codes.
Remington Model 700 Date Code
Anyone know if a G prefix ( serial number, I don't have the bbl #) remington 700 ADL which it seems was discontinued in 2005, with J lock, would be the dull finish, or have the heavy beadblasting like an SPS has? Every SPS I have owned needed lapping compound to smoothen the bolt . I fear this ADL is the same finish as my son's G prefix SA remington, but hoping the ADL's were of a different finish. I believe my son's was a SPS restocked in a B&C stock.
Thanks
Allen
Remington 700 Serial Number Database
Remington Model 700 Serial Number Lookup: Remington Firearms 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. Since year codes are often duplicated, a code letter on a gun with a serial number would be later than 1967 while one without a serial number would be a year prior to 1967. Remington added serial numbers in 1967 staring with 400,000.