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Anybody a Remington fan over here that could give me a rough idea on value. Gun has 32" barrels, two ivory beads. All case colors are gone. Barrel bores are bright and shinny, bluing is decent say 65 per cent. Screws are all decent. Wood looks like it had some water fowling use, probably savable but a little rough. Ordnance steel barrels, with ejectors, round knob pistol grip. 14 5/8 length of pull to front trigger with a old red head recoil pad.

I have some 1894's. Paul Harm does as well.
They must have been very popular in MI.
First off, you are sure it's an 1894, not a 1900? Push button forend? Then, "Has the widows peak been cut off?" sometimes they are filled, sometimes covered, often chopped off.
Then, because of the slim hand, "Are there any cracks, repaired or otherwise, in the area of the safety slide?" They are commonly cracked through right there. "Do the ejectors work?" dainty little spring in there that goes bad.
No color, but clear crisp engraving Or, was it polished off? Are the screws on the action bottom wasted?

A low condition 1894 in fully functional, superficially restorable condition , starts at about $350.00, and goes up. But if it's been cut, the ejectors don't work, and it has no color, well, what ever you can negotiate.
There are some real nice ones out there, but also plenty with broken stocks glued and pinned back together.

What are the numbers on the bottom of the barrel lump? Add a 3 and you can ID original choke at 40 yards.

Here is a Remington 1894 CE grade with 30" damascus barrels and priced a little high, in my opinion, for the issues it has, still something to compare to anyway.

http://www.gunsinternational.com/Remingt...un_id=100558007

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From your description you are describing one of my classic project guns. Bones and potential but a lot of issues. I'd bet you ten bucks the head of the stock is cracked. No case, metal good, engraving fair, LOP 14 +\- . Did I describe it correctly? Call it a 20-30-40% gun, depends on buyers or dealers viewpoint. Blue book value 700- 1100-1800 plus 25% for ord steel. A 100% gun is worth 4,800 plus 25% according to blue book. If a shooter I would be in the 1100 range and be ready to drop money to make sure the stock is good. Full restoration, done by pro could run two to three times that much depending on what you find. Engraved money pit.

I was looking at a CE with Damascus barrels needing total refinish that had a 2,600 price tag and the barrels needed the top rib relayed. I figured that gun would have been a near six- seven grand money pit if total restoration was done. And some of the surface pits were deep. Might need a good micro welder and then re-engraving. What ever you do don't tell me where it is because I am a sucker for Remington 1894 projects and need another like I need two extra wives.

Stock must have been cut because the is no evidence of widows peak. No cracks in stock and no repairs visible. Looks to have original finish. Forearm has a piece missing on both sides towards the front. Screws are nice engraving is crisp.

The crack is most often internal. You have to remove the stock to find if one exist. Recoil acts like a wedge and splits the stock at the head. Repaired with a metal staple the crack gives no future problems. If you do a search here you will find several good post with great pictures of the repair.

Be careful Remington 1894's are very addictive. Well made and become solid shooters when brought back to mechanical shape. I guess Remington stopped production before cost cutting measures made their doubles cheaper and less well fitting. They did end production about 30 years before the others gave up production.

Here's one of my fave's in action.



The stock's are typically pretty short.
Is the missing forend piece the little step detail (seen as a dark horizontal line starting at the action in this pic)? I have seen a few where one side or the other was broken off.

One big reason Remington bailed out of the SxS business in 1910 was because of Remington's own doing. They started into production the "Browning patent" Model 11 autoloader shotgun. Much easier to make and at much greater profit return for the investment.

http://www.remington.com/products/archived/shotguns/autoloading/model-11.aspx


The Remington 1894 is my favorite SxS by far....



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Funny this question should pop up now. I'm just trying to decide on a 1894 CE that is in reasonably good shape, original stock but barrels have been cut to 25". If they had not been cut would be in my safe now.

Interesting to see the chat regarding Remington 1894 SXSs. I too have one and have yet to have it appraised for insurance value. It's a 16ga CE with ordinance steel barrels. The gun is mint from stem to stern (100% blue, 100% CC, mirror bores, perfect screws and a nice piece of wood). I've attached some pictures but they're not all that good. The finger prints on the tubes don't help anything and the flash also pretty much hosed up showing the case colors on the picture of the right side of the receiver.







Mark