The Remington Repeating Shotgun/Model 10 was a John D. Pedersen design. The Model 17 was based on a John M. Browning Patent No. 1,143,170 granted June 15, 1915. However, Remington was gearing up for WW-I at that time and it would be six more years before the gun came out. Remington's designer John D. Pedersen made design refinements in 1919 (applications filed Sept. 15, 1919, Patent No. 1,429,621 granted Sept. 19, 1922 and Patent No. 1,487,799 granted Mar. 25, 1924) and G.H. Garrison made further improvements. It was the patents on these improvements that forced Ithaca to wait until 1937 to bring out their slab-sided copy of this gun, though Ithaca had actually built some guns by 1932. Actually Pedersen has so many patent applications filed in that 1919 time frame it is hard to tell which really apply!
As far as the Remington Model 31 is concerned it is primarily Remington's designer Crawford C. Loomis --
Patent No. 1,763,714 -- C.C. Loomis
Patent No. 1,786,213 -- C.C. Loomis
Patent No. 1,834,410 -- C.C. Loomis
Patent No. 2,023,929 -- C.C. Loomis
Patent No. 2,039,814 -- C.C. Loomis
That Arnold Griebel engraved 31 is very nice and you couldn't buy that much engraving, of that quality, today for that kind of money. I was reaching for my checkbook, but then I saw those damn holes in the barrel!!
Remington solid and vent ribs were milled integral with the barrels on all their pumps and autoloaders up to the Model 11-48 and Model 870. Actually I don't know about the vent ribs on late Model 10TCs and Model 29TCs as I don't recall ever having either in my hands.
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