Antique Shotgun

[Minihuntur]

My dad has Remington Model 31 12 gauge in 75% condition. None of the gun stores I have called have heard of it. Anyone know what its worth and where I can get other barrels for it.

Minihuntur :)

[GoodOlBoy]

http://www.remington.com/library/history/firearm_models/shotguns/model_31.asp

Model 31
Description: Remington's first side ejecting repeating shotgun
Introduction Year: 1931
Year Discontinued: 1949
Total Production: Approximately 196,000
Designer/Inventor: C.C. Loomis
Action Type: Pump action
Caliber/Gauge: 12, 16, 20 gauge
Serial Number Blocks: 12 ga. 0,000 – 121,000
16 & 20 ga. 500,000 – 575,000
Grades Offered: 31A
31AC
31AP – Standard Grade
31B – Special Grade
31D – Tournament Grade
31E – Expert Grade
31F – Premier Grade
31H – Hunter's Special
31P – Police Grade
31R – Riot Grade
31 Skeet
31D Skeet Tournament
31E Skeet Expert
31F Skeet Premier
31 Trap Special Grade
31S-D Trap Tournament
31S-E Trap Expert
31S-F Trap Premier
31TC Trap (or Tournament) Grade
31T-D Target Tournament
31T-E Target Expert
31T-F Target Premier
Variations: Model 31 New Improved in a Skeet Gun, TC Target Grade, Police Special, and Riot Gun
Model 31 New Improved Lightweight with Aluminum Receivers in a A,B,D,E,F, Skeet and Riot Grades (the letter "L" preceded the grade, ex. Model 31LA)

Model 31 Long-Range Guns in A Grade, New Improved A Grade, Trap Grade, Hunter's Special Grade, and Trap Grade (the letter "X" preceded the grade, ex. Model 31XA)

Thats all the info I have.

GoodOlBoy

[GoodOlBoy]

By the way the only barrel numrich offers for it is a 16 guage 2 3/4 inch.

Heres to hoping you have good luck finding barrels, parts are alot easier than the barrel iteself.

GoodOlBoy

[skeet]

Have 2 bbls for the 12 and 1 20 ga One 12 has solid rib and a cutts comp and the other has vent rig with imp cyl choke. Both bbls are very expensive A very nice gun and about as smooth as you can make a pump gun..... comparable to a Win M-12 ...close anyway. Also have a 31 C skeet pretty gun and shoots pretty good.

[popplecop]

Not an antique, I rember when they were the only pump shotgun Rem. It has the smoothest action of any pump shot gun, Md. 12 addicts will jump on me for that, but that is may opinion after owning both. Receivers came steel and an alloy light weight one. I shoot a 16 ga. light weight and love it. By the way only pump shotgun I own. Have a number of others but if I need a pump it will be a Rem Model 31, and it is an older model not an antique, please.

[skeet]

Remington 31 is smoother than a Winchester M-12!!

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Hey Popplecop.. Is too an antique! It's older than you and you are definitely an antique or so somebody said...Think it was Nulle!!:confused: :eek: :D

[GoodOlBoy]

Don't look at me all you guys are older than dirt. . . . . Me I am just gettin there. . . . . :D

GoodOlBoy - a Classic '74

[popplecop]

Getting to the point of being older than dirt. If these are the Golden Years, you youngster enjoy the Silver ones as long as you can. I hear that the DeSota is comeing back, always liked them.

[Minihuntur]

76, HECK YEAH THATS OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
minihuntur:mad: :mad:

[wildfowl4444]

If the shops you called knew nothing about the Remington 31, you need to find BETTER shops to deal with!


Great gun by the way!

[tjwatty]

He ain't older than dirt, but he remembers when it was delivered...

[gerry375]

popplecop:

This 77 year old read your posts with delight that we "older" people have a champion! :) ( I enjoyed your description of yourself as a retired "game warden". That was the title I knew in upstate NY in my youth (before the publicity people thought it sounded better to say "Conservation officer") (The first game warden I knew walked with a bad limp -the product of a deer jacker shooting him in the knee. The jacker was caught up with by our local State Troopers who shot him after he "resisted arrest". (In those days it was a very bad idea to shoot at a law officer) Anyway, I too carried the Rem 31 in my youth. I can't claim to have compared it to a Win. Mod. 12 because I never owned a Mod.12 -but very definitely I remember its smoothness. (I have owned any number of Rem Wingmasters and they all were good -but no better than that Rem. 31. ( I do have to say that I owned for 3-4 grouse seasons, a Win. Mod. 97 - straight grip, hammer -used, of course - and I killed more grouse with that shotgun than I ever did with any other. I wanted a more "modern" shotgun. My father's advice about keeping a gun that kills was ignored. I got my "modern" shotgun. An Ithaca Mod.37 -and the light weight and bottom ejection threw me off completely in shooting at ruffed grouse. Then I got to a Rem Mod.31. I stuck with Rem. shotguns ever after. (BTW, never drove a De Soto. Can't remember what the hood emblem looked like so I can't remember the car. I do miss hood emblems. Now I know that I probably rank as an "antique"!) :)

[popplecop]

Well, our official title was Conservation Warden, and that still is. But everyone knew us as Game Wardens, but we were called by a lot of other names that I won't get into. They say age is a state of mind, only problem is my mind keeps shifting as to how old I feel, somedays stuck in neutral. Oh yes, when they delivered dirt the commands were gee and haw, really remember that from skidding logs. Most young people won't know what I'm talking about, but I'm that way some of the time. Might take my 31 out this next week and shoot at a pheasant.

[skeet]

Well gee...haw haw haw. Which way ya going now?? hehehe Just wondering Popple....What was it ya really told ol Moses up there on the mountain??

[tjwatty]

I'm old but not that old, was gee left and haw right, or am I backwards?? Oh, and did it work with horses or just mules??

[popplecop]

Worked with both plus oxen. Gee is left, haw is right. I enjoy watching the local Amish farm with horses, they sure know how to use them. I never worked with mules or oxen, but knew an old Swede logger that used a team of oxen.