Thanks again for that link to the Remington barrel codes - the code on this is WW which puts DOM as August 1928. I ran some #9 soaked patches through it expecting to find years of gunk but they came out absolutely clean.īased on what I saw when I got it cleaned up and compared to the pics of ones getting the $300 bids I raised the starting bid $100. One neat thing which was unexpected is that the bore is clean as a whistle. The wood is sound with no cracks or punkiness from soaking in old oil. It takes apart very easily and the barrel is serial numbered to the receiver. I took off the surface rust with Hoppes # steel wool and it has a fair amount of freckling but it retains a lot of the original finish.
The owner let me bring all of the firearms to my house to clean and inspect more closely and this one is really in a lot better shape than those original pictures showed.
