Remington 1100 Serial Number Year

  1. Dec 11, 2011 Model 1100 serial numbers (on the receiver) started with the number 1001. All but the early guns also have a prefix letter. All Model 1100 Remington shotguns were serial numbered in blocks of numbers. Each serial number has a suffix and the following indicates the meaning: V = 12ga.
  2. I just recently purchased a Remington 1100 shotgun that has a serial number on the receiver that is 'L79xxxxV'. I'm trying to figure out when it was made and from what I read on a site it stated the first letter would be the month and then the first two numbers would be the year (so mine would be Feb 1979?!?).
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I just located another 12ga Remington 1100 with L prefix then 00 and then 4 low digits for the serial number. Remington also told me today that mine did not exist in their records either. The only 2 things I find different or kinda out of the ordinary run of the mill 1100 is it has the full choke vent ribbed 28 inch barrel instead of usual 30.

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Here is some information that you can get from you serial number after 1921
Remington's 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. The following letters correspond to the months of the year
Month Codes: [first letter]
B - L - A - C - K - P - O - W - D - E - R - X
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12
Year:---------Code: [second and/or third letters]
1930----------Y
1931----------Z
1932----------A
1933----------B
1934----------C
1935----------D
1936----------E
1937----------F
1938----------G
1939----------H
1940---------- J
1941---------- K
1942---------- L
1943---------- MMZ
1944---------- NN
1945---------- PP
1946---------- RR
1947---------- SS
1948---------- TT
1949---------- UU
1950---------- WW
1951---------- XX
1952---------- YY
1953---------- ZZ
1954---------- A
1955---------- B
1956---------- C
1957---------- D
1958---------- E
1959---------- F
1960---------- G
1961---------- H
1962---------- J
1963---------- K
1964---------- L
1965---------- M
1966---------- N
1967---------- P
1968---------- R
1969---------- S
1970---------- T
1971---------- U
1972---------- W
1973---------- X
1974---------- Y
1975---------- Z
1976---------- I
1977---------- O
1978---------- Q
1979---------- V
1980---------- A
1981---------- B
1982---------- C
1983---------- D
1984---------- E
1985---------- F
1986---------- G
1987---------- H
1988---------- I
1989---------- J
1990---------- K
1991---------- L
1992---------- M
1993---------- N
1994---------- O
1995---------- P
1996---------- Q
1997---------- R
1998---------- S
1999---------- T
2000---------- U
2001---------- W
2002---------- X
Using barrel codes (such as those listed above) to date the manufacture are reliable on Remington rifles, as the company rarely changed barrels on a customer's rifle.
Using these barrel codes to date a shotgun is somewhat unreliable, as shotgun barrels are often interchanged at random. One needs to be sure that the barrel is original to the gun before trusting the Barrel Code listing, above.
(*) On 8/9/99, stopped stamping the barrels with the date code. They continued to mark the date code on the end flap of the shipping box. They resumed stamping the date code on the barrel on 10/1/01.
Also http://oldguns.net/sn_php/remdates.php