I found a Remington 1894 double barrel

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If I am reading the price tag correctly, it appears to say $300. If so, you found a gem. A look at all of the perfect screw heads tells me that there was not a kitchen table gunsmith around this gun. A sneak peak at the fore end wood seems to suggest much better than the buttstock wood. A plus for you.

Please don't do what my father did in the 1960's with a very nice pair of original 1930's Fox Sterlingworth shotguns, 12 and 20 gauges: pretty them up by refinishing them. :(

Your gun is better looking as original and worth much more so.

Very nice find, sir!

Jim
 
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Really can't see a good picture of the barrels, if they have swirly lines in them, probably Damascus, while rifle barrels were made of steel, I believe Damascus was used well into the early 1900's. Might very well be short chambers also, if you do shoot it use the lightest target loads you can find. Beautiful shotgun, good find.
 
Well, I looked it up and they may well be Damascus barrels. I apologize for thinking they were not. I find that hard to believe, but...

They also may be chambered for a 2-9/16" shell. A 2-3/4" roll crimped paper shell with a light load may work in a Damascus barrel gun but I am no expert.

I will defer to others here from now and will learn from others' posts.

I will lurk and learn from here on with this subject.

Thanks for the further education!

Jim
 
Damascus barrels, believe it or not, were offered as an extra cost option well past 1900 on a good many shotguns. I've owned quite a few.
 
Expand that pic and you see swirls. Or maybe my "sundowner" is affecting my sight.
 
That is a steal of a deal...and that is not a base level gun. There is some very nice engraving on that gun. You did awesome!
 
Handsome gun.

There are many opinions on Damascus:
It is a time bomb and should not be used.
It should only be shot with black powder.
It can be shot with appropriate loads of smokeless powder.
It can be shot with whatever you like.

You going to treat it nice or beat it up like you do your other guns?
 
Jim, the real danger for my guns is being ignored. I bought 65 guns over the last year and only shot two of them at the range or at game; a Browning B78 in 25-06 and a Win M70 I rebarreled to 25-06.
The best hope for this shotgun is I take it to MT, shoot a round of trap with my brother, and give him the 1894 Shotgun.
 
If you worried about the barrels holding up, get a 20 gauge tube set from a respectable company like Briley and then you can shoot them all you want safely. With the added advantage of not damaging the gun or any of the guns value.




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i have a remington model 1900 made in 1906 with 32" sreel F&F barrels, that i shoot from time to time with my trap loads with 1 0z # 8 shot and when i hunt small game i use i 0z # 6 shot. i think the model 1900 was a cheaper gun than the 1894. that 1894 remington was a good catch. eastbank.
 
I ran into this:


The October 1894 Remington Arms Co. catalogue, which introduced the Remington Hammerless Double Barrel Shotgun stated “The Remington Guns, both Hammer and Hammerless, are especially adapted to all nitro powders, and every gun is thoroughly proved, tested and targetted [sic], before leaving the armory.”


The Hammerless Model of 1894:

A Grade: “Two stripe Damascus” (Boston and Oxford 2 S.J.)

B Grade: “Fine Three stripe Damascus” (Oxford 4 S.J. and Chain J)

C Grade: “Finer Damascus” (Etoile and Washington)

D Grade: “Very fine Damascus” (Chine P. and Legia P.)

E Grade: “Finest Damascus” (Peiper and Ohonon 6 S.J.)

Remington 1894 ad 4-8-2017.jpg
 
the third one down is my remington 1900 12ga. i shot a 25-25 at 16 yard trap after getting the right cheek weld as it has a lot of drop in the butt stock. eastbank.
 

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That 1894 looks like a GREAT gun!

I have a Remington 1900, it was made in 1905,

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My dad bought it in the 40's for $10.00 and over the years, all of us kids grew up using/abusing it. When it became mine, I "fixed it up" a little.

DM
 
A guy here had a couple of Remington doubles that he shot regularly. Sorry, I don't recall the models.
One was pretty much stock with Damascus barrels. He had researched it and calculated that he had a smokeless load of no higher pressure than black.
The one with steel barrels was heavily modified for ATA trap. It had screw chokes and a split comb adjustable stock.
When people got indignant in him daring to modify and use Significant Historical Artifacts and Valuable Collectors Items, he pointed out that they were common models, mechanically sound but worn in finish, and that if you wanted one for display, there were plenty of nicer looking ones available. I guess he knew whereof he spoke, he was a well known collector of muzzleloaders. Spent his late career swapping his North Carolina rifles for Alabama rifles.
 
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Damascus barrels, believe it or not, were offered as an extra cost option well past 1900 on a good many shotguns. I've owned quite a few.
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The switch in the US from damascus to fluid steel wasn't complete until the mid 20's. That's about the time smokeless powder started showing up in shotgun shells. Even then the fluid steel barrels weren't made for the the SAMMI pressures today. If my memory is working I think the pressures for those barrels before 1920 should be around 9000 psi.(black powder). Today I think they are around 12000 psi. (working pressure).

Load your own ammo for that one and keep the pressure below 9000. SR 7625 and PB will get you below that pressure.

I just sold a 20 ga LC Smith built in 1939. One of the last ones built in the old factory. Nice old gun, you did well.
 
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