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The Remington Hammerless Double originally was introduced in October 1894 in five grades from A- up to E-Grade in 10- and 12-gauge with Damascus barrels and the option of ejectors. These guns have serial numbers in the 100000 range. In their April 1897 Catalog Remington Arms Co. began offering two grades of steel barrels -- Remington Steel and Ordnance Steel. Remington Steel barrels were the same price as the Damascus barrels on the entry-level A-quality guns while Ordnance Steel barrels were $5. extra on both A- and B-quality guns. Ordnance Steel barrels were the same price as Damascus barrels on C-, D- and E-quality guns. In the fall of 1897 Remington Arms Co. began offering the Remington Hammerless Double in 16-gauge.

A lower priced version of the Remington Hammerless Double in 12- and 16-gauges was introduced on an insert in some of the 1899 catalogs. These are the K-grades and have serial numbers in the 300000 range. These guns have J-spring snap-on/-off forearms instead of the Purdey-style push-button forearms of the A- to EEO-Grades. These guns were initially offered in two styles, the K-Grade with extractors and Remington Steel barrels and the KED-Grade with ejectors and Damascus barrels.

In the first 1902 Remington Arms Co. catalog a new high end, $750 list price, 12-gauge, ejector, Remington Hammerless Double, the "Remington Special" was introduced. These guns have serial numbers in the 400000 range. They generally have a Greener cross-bolt. The 1902 catalogs state Nickel Steel Barrels, but by the 1903-04 catalog Nickel, Ordnance or Whitworth barrels were being offered. One "Special" with Damascus barrels has been observed.

In the 1903-04 catalog a third variation of the low priced gun, the KD-Grade with Damascus barrels and extractors were added to the offerings.

In the first 1906 Remington Arms Co. catalog, a final variation of the low priced gun was added the KE-Grade, a Remington Steel barrel gun with ejectors. In the same catalog they introduced a new lower priced, $60 list price, straight-gripped, Trap Gun to the line called the FE-Grade. It has just a bit of border engraving, a bit less then the B-quality guns.

Remington Arms Co. only used the terms "Model 1894" and "Model 1900" on parts lists, on the catalog pages they were referred to as the Remington Hammerless Double Barrel Shotgun and just differentiated by grade.

According to Charles Semmer, late in production a few 20-gauge K-quality guns were made in 20-gauge and a few high grade guns, like the one that started this thread, were barreled with Krupp Fluid Steel tubes.

Single triggers were never cataloged but a variety of single trigger patents were assigned to Remington Arms Co. By the number of guns seen with single triggers they must have been actively experimenting.

Rolla Heikes used a Parker at the 1900 GAH at Live Birds, finished out of the money, and went back to a Remington, and won the Interstate Association�s First Annual GAH at Targets June 1900
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1900/VOL_35_NO_14/SL3514012.pdf
Grand American Handicap at Targets, open to all. 100 Blue Rocks, handicaps 14 to 25 yards, high guns, not class shooting. The match was shot from two Magautraps, a Sergeant system, and a five expert system, 25 targets on each set:
R. O. Heikes, Dayton, O., 22 yds. Remington - 91

Nov. 10, 1900 Sporting Life
�Heikes is now shooting a new single trigger Remington hammerless gun. He divided first money with Fred Gilbert and Elmer Neal in the 25 bird sweep at Peru, Ind., on October 31 with 24 dead.�

Nov. 17, 1900
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1900/VOL_36_NO_09/SL3609014.pdf
E. H. Tripp, the Indianapolis trap shot, tells a "hard luck" poker story- He was sitting in a quiet game with a few of the trap shots one night at St. Louis. Everything had gone the other way with him, and the boys had been "doing something."
At last he got a handful of aces in the deal, and he said to himself, -�Here is where I get even." He started to bluff the others, but just at that moment Colonel Courtney. who up to that time had been a quiet onlooker, began to tell about a new Remington hanmerless gun that had but one trigger to pull both barrels. He got the other fellows so interested in that gun that they forgot all about the poker game, and Tripp got but five measly chips out of his four aces.

�RoIIa Heikes is now working his new single trigger Remington hammerless gun��

He appears to have been using the same gun at the National Sportsmen�s Association Tournament March 1901
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1901/VOL_36_NO_25/SL3625013.pdf

R.O. Heikes (Remington Hammerless), Ed Banks (Winchester Repeater), W.R. Crosby (Smith), Jack Fanning (Smith), possibly B. LeRoy (Remington)



He used a Parker for the Anglo-American match in June 1901, but went back to his Remington afterwards.

Feb. 1, 1902 Sporting Life
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1902/VOL_38_NO_20/SL3820012.pdf
"...using a new Remington single trigger hammerless gun..."

Then used a LC Smith to take 3rd in the (last) GAH at Live Birds in Kansas City.

Could it have been a Fulford Single Trigger?

January 2, 1904 "The American Field" courtesy of David Noreen.





Fulford won the 1898 Grand American Handicap at Live Birds and was a Remington Rep
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1898/VOL_31_NO_02/SL3102016.pdf
E. D. Fulford, the winner, needs no introduction to the shooting men of this country. He has been at the traps as a professional shot for five or six years and is at present a shooting representative of the Remington Arms Co., and used a Remington hammerless gun weighing 7 3/4 lbs., 3 1/2 Schultze powder in U.M.C. Trap shells, three inches in length; 1 1/4 oz. No. 7 shot.

U.S. Patents for single triggers assigned to Remington Arms Co., or which illustrate a Remington Hammerless, include those of C.E. DeLong, E.D. Fulford, E.H. Thorneley, and G.E. Witherell. (Courtesy of David Noreen)

Just ran across the "Philadelphia Single Trigger" in a 1906 Forest & Stream

Well the Philadelphia Single Trigger is old news
http://doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=66775&page=1

An amazing list of single trigger patents are on the thread courtesy of Robert Chambers