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Guys another what I would consider "Factory" Long Range barrel example just changed hands on TS.com.
Notice there are no other choke marking in the normal areas, in my mind suggesting the barrel was selected and bored to long range specifications prior to any other borings.
Scott was kind enough to fill in some of the bore and choke dimensions.
The other style I have seen is the Italicized Script.
Seems like a lot of hype for a lame attempt to have something to compete with the Winchester Model 12 Heavy Duck. They offered their Model 32 and Parker doubles with 3-inch chambers in 12-gauge and the Parker 10-gauge with 3 1/2-inch chambers.
While some of the Remington catalogs offer 3-inch chambering for the Model 32, I have never seen one.
Can other owners of Remington "Long Range" marked barrels report in with the bore diameters. I find it hard to believe that Remington made barrels with a .742 bore like this poster mentions. No one with a "Long Range" barrel seems to own a bore micrometer. Kevin does but his gun is gone. Did he ever measure it?
Never have had a chance to measure a "LONG RANG" barrel.
Both barrels for my 1949 TC are marked MOD for choke but they are way overbore at .744" and .745" both date code UU. When I got the gun, the original barrel had been fitted with an ITC choke tube for .054" of choke!! Some years later I picked up a TC barrel at a local pawn shop, marked MOD. Its bore is .745 with .021" choke. A machinist friend fitted it to my gun and whacked the original barrel through the first rib support giving me a skeet barrel. Here in the land of the Stan Baker "Big Bore" impossible to say what may have been done to the bores of those barrels since leaving Ilion!!
One of my old shooting buddies has a 1939 TC by serial number, barrel dated March 1940. It has a .723" bore with .028" choke.
