![]() (Some of these hardware details are my observations from my collection rifles with action numbers of 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8-digits.) The barrels with their own date codes told the actual date of firearm assembly or close-to date prior to shipping. Some stocks came with blackened/checkered aluminum butt plates and I believe that the 7mm mag came with a Remington factory rubber butt plate (at some point). Some prepped for peep-sights even had the stock cut-out for the site from the factory but were then filled back in with a glued-in-place piece of walnut. ![]() These early rifles had a "stripper clip" charging cut-out in the top-back of the receiver feed/ejection port, a "tombstone shaped" safety, and many if not all were bored and tapped for a peep-sight on the back left side of the receiver. The barrels with their own date codes told the actual date of firearm assembly or close-to date prior to shipping. Remington 700 (both ADL and BDL models) receiver/actions were produced starting in 1962 with serial number 1000 and ran to serial number 387347 in November of 1968.
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