#REMINGTON 40X HISTORY HOW TO#
#REMINGTON 40X HISTORY PLUS#

#REMINGTON 40X HISTORY PLUS#

As you see Remington did use two letters for the year plus one for the month in the 40's but did not after then. Who knows now as most of those guys have passed on. The rifle may have failed an inspection and went back through the factory for a repair and been dated again'. 'The other letter may be an inspector mark or it could have been a mistake made by the guy dating the rifle. I've never heard a good reason for this and I have heard many. Any Remington rifle made in the 50's and 60's should only have two letters by their own code. Yes I am saying some 40X rifles have three letters in the area where the date stamp is. These are match target rifles that were used by ROTC,National Guard,Army,Marines and any other branch that had shooting teams. It is said that the electro-pencil marks were added after the rifles arrived at the branch of service that used them. I have one with a mis-matched bolt that shoots as well as the one that matches. Best to leave them like this unless you want to have then re-headspaced to make them shoot well again. As stated in previous post, the bolts are headspaced to the action they are now in. You will find 40XB actions with 40X bolts and 40X's with 40XB bolts.

We know that the contracts continued with the 40XB version which wasn't availble till 1964. In Batha's book, he mentions the contracts stopped in 1961 with 20,000 rifles. Both actions had standard and heavy barrel versions though most of the 40X's are standard and the 40XB's are heavy barrel. The B is what makes it a 40XB heavy barrel. The reason for the B is this is when the 722/40X action was phased out and the 700/40XB action started. There were various contracts during the next 10+ years. The contracts actually started in 1955 with 30 heavy barrel 40X rifles going to Ft Knox. The Marines had thier rifles marked just USMC and no 'property'. There does appear to be serveral Gov't agencies buying the rifles over about ten years so the markings are most likely Army, DOD, Navy and Air Force related. IE BXXXXXX or XXXXXB not sure why that is either. If your rifle is a heavy barrel then it should have a B in the S/N. US, US Gov't Property, US Property and no marking other than the Remington 40X. Your rifle can be marked at least four ways also. There's no GI rifles 'before 1957 as far as I've heard of. Some times there's three letters on these rifles and I'm not sure if anyone has a good answer for that. There's no hard and fast rules for GI guns. The heavy barrel rifles started about 1959 and ended 1966 aprox. If your rifle is a Standard barrel it will be made between 1957 to 1964 aprox. When you receive your rifle there will be some letters and symbols on the left side. Remington rifles have a code/date on the left side of the barrel just forward of the receiver. Here's a copy of my PM I sent to a Hide guy today. Short is it's the same as all Remington rifles.

#REMINGTON 40X HISTORY HOW TO#

I've had several people ask me how to date a 40X.

Remington 40x history