Remington 788 question.
Will try to upload my photos, but here's what I have. A boxed, tags and scope combo present 788 carbine in .308. All seems perfectly correct, no bolt face wear, no visible barrel use, one handling mark scratch left side of fore end. The quandry I'm in is that it appears to be parkerized? All parts that should be in the white are. Anyone familiar with this model? My limited experience with these does not include having witnessed one in this finish. Anyone else ever seen one/know if this is correct?
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The one I had had a dull blue finis. 0 -
I went into both the Blue Book, and Roy Marcot's history of Remington firearms. Neither mention a parkerized 788.
This don't mean anything though. At the time Remington made them, they were the "cheapie", of their BA's. Remington had a history, of making economy/cheap guns for various retailers. A parkerized gun would be less expensive, because a lot of the polishing hand labor would be done away with.
Might contact customer service at Remington. If they can verify, it was shipped with a parkerized finish.0 -
All 3 of mine have what I would call a matt, dull blueing.
No money was spent by remington to polish the steel before blueing.
They spent the cash on making the most accurate rifle out of a box.[:D]
Are you sure it's parker?? Is there a "pitted" and rough look to it??
Or is it just "raw" steel that has been blued?
ADDED INFO:
I just looked thru my old 1977 and 1978 books, and found nothing about
parkerized remington 788's.
Did find this....{Oh and I love it !!}
The 1978 shooters bible lists the 788 {in big bold lettering}
as MODEL 788 CLIP REPEATER
and extra CLIPS are only $6.00.
Seems ALL the remington rifles listed use CLIPS to hold the extra rounds.
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Finish is rough on them. Does it look like this one? http://www.GunBroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=478577612
Someone could have treated it to some bottle finish a long time ago.
Good Pic's please.
added Looks bead blasted then blued for the finish to me.
http://www.GunBroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=4809529620 -
Thanks for all the replies already! Was breaking up the garden and just logged back on. The finish is DEFINATELY not dull blue. I've had a dozen or so of these come through my hands and indeed,they all looked dull blued. It looks like there was no additional polishing done, and the finish is a flat, parkerized job with a fine sandygrainy appearance to it. Plain hardwood, barrel code OC. Thought it might have been a spray job, but it is neat as heck and the inside of the barrel has the same finish. The bolt is the same finish and has the same bluing/in the white pattern as any other I've seen, just with the park in place of the regular blue. Is a puzzlement! Will work on pics this afternoon and see what I can get to ya'll. thanks for the effort people, I appreciate the help! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by 1KYDSTR
Thanks for all the replies already! Was breaking up the garden and just logged back on. The finish is DEFINATELY not dull blue. I've had a dozen or so of these come through my hands and indeed,they all looked dull blued. It looks like there was no additional polishing done, and the finish is a flat, parkerized job with a fine sandygrainy appearance to it. Plain hardwood, barrel code OC. Thought it might have been a spray job, but it is neat as heck and the inside of the barrel has the same finish. The bolt is the same finish and has the same bluing/in the white pattern as any other I've seen, just with the park in place of the regular blue. Is a puzzlement! Will work on pics this afternoon and see what I can get to ya'll. thanks for the effort people, I appreciate the help!
"OC", would be July 1982, per the BB reference section. That was the year before Remington ceased production, of the 788. Maybe it was a parts clean-up rifle. That was sold through one of the big box stores, or high volume firearms distributor?0 -
.308 carbine.
MAYBE a police gun. Remington makes batches of rifles in special configurations. Grice Wholesale is constantly getting batches.0 -
Apologies to all, but my desktop is DOA for a while and I can't download anything ( not that I didn't try with other devices, but I'm a Technotard of the first order and couldn't perservere) so if someone wants to see the few half decent shots of the finish I have from my tablet, lemme know and I'll try.
In the interim, I took Rufes' advice and called Remington, who were surprisingly helpful. According to them, the OC is correct for manufacture of the barrel at 7-82, as indicated by Rufe as well ( thank you sir; you are a well- font of info and good advice!) etc., actual build date was 3-84. This would seem to indicate the gun was a parts cleanup of some sort. The serial number corresponds to a 788, .308 carbine, "18 1/2 barrel, scope combo as mentioned on box. The rep said there was no mention of finish in the records at all, and she was not personally aware of non custom shop special finishes for these having been made, but considering the cleanup gun provenance could not rule out the possibility it came from them that way. Also, she raised the possibility that I am misjudging the finish as mentioned by Babun and Charliemeyer (thanks to you guys as well! A CLIP repeater huh?! Wasn't aware Garand or old Otto Von Mannlicher designed the feed system for,the 788 either! Hmmmm...even the gun marketers plant the cranium in their own bum occasionally!) so once someone else sees pics, maybe they can throw in their opinion. Who knows WHAT is up with this little LNIB gem.
On another tack, really like these guns. Also like the Savage 340's. There's just something about truck guns that does it for me. Always fun to outshoot your buddies with a 50 year old rifle that costs half or less of what theirs does! [}:)].0 -
Still having zero luck with Photobucket, but I have the auction set up to kick off tomorrow night, and here is the listing number...480952962. My pics are kinda all over the place quality-wise, but hope they do the trick. Next time, I use the macro AND the short zoom; live and learn. 0
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