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As soon as it warms up a little I will take it out again. I bought a Lead Sled. Jim A great and wonderful butt pad to lessen recoil without using a 'lead sled' are 'Limb Saver' brand slip on pads. They are a quality item, around $30 on the average, but really tame recoil to the shoulder. Great prod...

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A Blessed and Happy New Year to all!

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On the homepage of this website, click on "The grades of the Model 8 and 81" and you will be able to see what factory checkering of a B grade 81 would look like. Lots of good photos to see the subtle differences, (and not so subtle). Amen to MinnesotaDan's post. Also check any books with ...

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jack1653 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 11:58 pm I have number 59 which is a first day production in 1906 and it has a spring tube.
Regards,

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Well that answers that 100% plus, can't get much earlier than "first day production"!

Thank you 'jack'.

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OK-Got curious about the video. I'll admit I hadn't watched the video for some time. All I could remember was when the guy in the video separated the stock and receiver, the action spring really popped out and there wasn't a action spring tube on the receiver. I remember when the video guy reassembl...

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Must be the 'stump' question of the month, guess no one knows!

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Those 81's always bring high dollar $$$$$+ on GunBroker (and other sites). Have seen many of the 'bid' timing date/hour come and go with no bids. The sellers will relist many times with no bids. Sometimes the cycle will repeat itself quite a few times until a buyer buys it or the seller just quits l...

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A few years back I was watching a Utube video made by a guy called Mixup98. Video labeled 'Remington Model 8 Semi-Auto Rifle-How to Disassemble'. Very good video, learned alot about the 8/81 watching it umpteen times when I was having cycling problems with my first 300 Savage 81. The problems I had ...

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Cute little 8/81 fan!!!

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Trepang: According to Henwood in his Rem 8/81 book on Model 8 exterior markings, the 'trefoil' (sort of a three leaf pattern) on the trigger plate and just above it on the receiver, another 'trefoil', are the fitters stamps. The circled N above the serial number is the assemblers mark. In Henwoods b...

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Double/triple WOW!!!!! I watch 8 and 81's for sale on GB and Guns International. Put alot of them on a watch list to see how they sell and what for. Bid on a few once in a while. Would like a nice one in 35 Remington one of these days for "just cause". Anyway I've noticed as many of you pr...

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Merry and Blessed Christmas to you also Cam and to all forum members and readers.
Like the pictures-should've had a 8/81 plastic gun as a kid. Amen to the Bible verse for the "Reason for the Season"!

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I'll PM ya the video info today, ya should have it before the sun sets. The stampings you see on the bottom of your receiver and trigger assembly are "Assemblers and Fitters" stampings from what I've read here on the forum and reading John Henwoods great book 'The Great Remington 8 and 81'...

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I'll try to get the video's PM's to ya ASP! I'll just have to type the video info to ya vs having a click on link. Doin that is way past my pay grade/computer skills. Need to figure it out sometime how to do. When your rifle was on GB, I could see what appeared to be a date code on the left side, bu...

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Nice lookin Model 8 Trepang. When I was looking at it on GB I noticed the seller had in his heading it was a 1920 DOB, but in his description he had it was a 1922 production. I checked the serial number from the picture he supplied and saw it was a 1922 birth date. That is one of the nicest Model 8'...

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I'll 3rd the WOW! Nice find-is that something you obtained or didja get the pic from somewhere? Be worth its weight in gold to someone with a severely damaged forearm, although it might be worth more left as is. See forearms pop up on ebay and such once in a while, although used. Items like that pos...

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Read that due to the 14/141 magazine construction that spire pointed bullets could be used without fear of recoil ignited primers, but that the majority of shooters of those two guns fired RN ammo for the most part. Would not mind having one in 25 Remington for the type of shooting I do with my 81's...

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They "ain't" 8's or 81's, but have any of you had any experience with Remington's Models 14 and 141? Remington's early pump versions are cousin's of the 8 and 81, firing the same calibers, being manufactured during the 8 and 81 hey-days before both models were dropped for the 740 auto and ...

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Revisited this thread again tonight. Was interesting to read again and view the pictures. Ah---to be able to hunt with those guys back in the thirties for a couple of days!!!! A big reason we love our Rem 8 & 81 rifles is nostalgia for simpler and, IMO, better times. Pics of hunting camps back i...

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Ah, so you got that one. Had been looking at it for a while, had it on on my watch list. Have contemplated getting a 81 in 35 Rem for a while, bid on a few, but didn't go all the way with them. Saw your Model 8 and thought it was in pretty nice shape for a Rem 8 of that age, was watching it for seve...

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Welcome from Iowa. Thank you for your service. I don't know if I could have spent the time you sub sailors spent under the water. I start to go nuts if in the house for a couple of days. Wait to you crowd out a safe, buy another, and then need another. A pleasant vice IMO!

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Howdy from Iowa. The 8/81's are a interesting and fun rifle to shoot.

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Not sure whether you are talking about inserting into chamber or into magazine but here's some info fwiw. I saw an article addressing the difficulty loading the magazines of model 8's, Here's the suggested technique that I found to work. Instead of pushing cartridges down into the mag parallel to b...

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Welcome 'fechnerj'!!! You are extremely fortunate to inherit a 25 caliber Model 8. Alot of 8/81 collectors and shooters spend alot of years trying to add one to their stable. A rarer caliber to find and can be a pricey one!!! Lucky guy!!! Rifleman

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Sorry, I don't. Looked at Numrich Parts, they're out of stock.

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Been there before. Was sitting castin for a spell several years ago, so I stood up to stretch a bit. Had a 'convenience' style coffee mug close by, grabbed it to take a drink. I don't like drinking from those things with the lid on through the little oval hole, always take it off to consume. Anyway,...

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Hear what yer saying about scarce parts and no longer made ones. If a junker rifle with bad bore, poor rusted exterior, basically a beat up 8/81 is the case, see no problem. But to take a nice looking functional rifle and scrap it is another. I've searched the internet alot for 8/81 parts (and other...

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Always curious about something and that's when ya see 8/81 parts on eBay and other such selling/buying sites if any of ya have ever known some of those sellers buying 8/81's and tearing them down and selling the parts individually? As far as I'm concerned that's among the lowest of the low. Case in ...

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PLEASE never use anything other than 35 REMINGTON ammunition in your gun! Your Model 8 is designed to use the chambering that is stamped on the barrel. 35 Whelen is not equal to 35 Remington, they are totally different dimensions. WHAT Hibby83 said!!!!!! Question: will the Whelan .35 cal. ammo fit ...

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My brother and I have a Model 8 C .35 that was Dad's so we grew up with one of these rifles. We went to a gun show about 10 years ago and came home with an 81 in .300 Savage, then another.300, an 81 in .35, an 8 in .25, .30 and another .30. Nice collection 'kenhwind'! I grew up with nothing but a H...

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Maybe some inspector/assembler initials or ID number. Maybe some previous owners initials/code. Once upon a time I used to take wooden grips off of any handgun I bought or the butt plate on long guns and use a wood burner to carve my initials and a specific number in the wood for ID purposes, not re...

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Howdy Wildgoose! Nice lookin pair of 300 Savages. Like your deer hunt picture. In my state (Iowa) its a muzzle loader, shotgun, bow deer hunt state. A few years ago they opened it up to large bore straight wall handgun cartridges only that can be used either with handgun or rifle. A few straight wal...

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Nice buy. I did see that one on GB. Over the last 3 months or so there has been some nice ones show up there. Not having anything that is chambered in 35 Rem and I've promised myself I wasn't going to buy anything chambered in a caliber other than what I had (didn't want to go out and buy new dies, ...

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For what it's worth, Cabela's is still selling Rem 250 Savage brass for $29.95, free shipping on orders over $50.00 as of this date, 10/17/20.

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OK, probably be a meeting in the dark of night to get rid of me, advise Cam "Get rid of that guy, he's a trouble maker", haha Rifleman no worries that's not going to happen! Bottom line however, this website is a VERY niche site. How many websites out there are solely dedicated to relativ...

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WOW, this forum is next to dead anymore. I haven't been a member that long, but when I did join there was some information and sharing of posts and idea's. Anymore there is just the occasional post about a new 8/81, a technical question that may go unanswered or when it does 3-7 days after posting t...

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In case any one is looking for 250 or 300 Savage brass Cabela's has Remington new 50 rds for $29.95. Orders over $50 get free FedEx Shipping. Brownell's has new Hornady 300 Savage 50 rds for $29.99. Free ship with Code L6S or Code RSA on 10% off orders over $99.00. These were prices as of 11:49 PM C...

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Now that's an idea, chances slim and none that I'll ever do it.

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Yep, one of those states. I was just down to probably one of the biggest gunshows in Iowa that is held 6-7 times a year in Des Moines this last weekend. Not one Rem 8/81 and only three Sav 99's. Two of them were pretty beat, the other was $$$$ due to the fact it was in good shape for a 90 year old 9...

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No bottleneck (high power) rifle cartridges allowed. Other than bow and muzzleloader rifle, the DNR only allows certain straightwall cartridges for hunting deer such as 44 Magnum, 45/70, and a few others. Up until not to long ago other than bow/muzzzleloader the only legal means was by the use of sh...

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In my state (Iowa) at gunshows I do go to, they are rarely seen, so I get most of my prices off GB and Guns International. I bought both of my 81's off of GB. For the most part it seems to me that 8/81 prices have climbed around $100-150 in the last year. It seems also that prices on guns internatio...

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Well.... my gunsmith was able to mount the barrel in his lathe, centered it up on the bore axis and re-turned the barrel threads. He said the setting that he had to use to chase the threads was 17/32" - 24 tpi. Now the barrel nut threads back onto the barrel easily... and I've now reassembled ...

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Yes... reinstalling the barrel in the shroud assembly and getting the little washer nub to line up with the groove in the barrel thread used to give me fits. Then I started marking the end of the muzzle with a black Sharpie indicating where the groove is and then I can easily rotate the barrel to l...

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Can't say if this could be your problem CGU', but when my first Mod 81 300 Savage was giving me more headaches than a noisy neighbor, ie. failure to eject, failure to lock after last round, improper ejection, most of my problem had to do with a warped and damaged Bolt carrier latch spring and a dama...

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Yes Rob, good to see ya postin. Wish the forum was more active. Have got a lot of mileage out of the tool I purchased from you. Works so slick I almost want to disassemble the barrel and sleeve every time I clean the bore. Take care. Rifleman

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Welcome Craiger: 10-4 on what 81 Police posted. Also several members make them and offer for sale. I've seen offers for sale of tools for the 8/81 barrel takedown on other forums and ebay also, some are pretty pricey. I bought a tool from a member of this forum several years ago that works like a ch...

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Noticed that the original OP post dates back to 2017, all I'd say about that post is 'leave well enough alone'. Wonder if the OP ever did the conversion? '48Model81'--In reference to your question to the extractor being marked '35', both the Rem 81 35 Rem and 300 Savage extractors are marked '35'. I...

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Fred wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2020 8:54 am Could be NOS, but it shouldn't matter. For what it's worth, my 1947 buffer spring's ends also do not not touch adjacent coils. Let us know how it works.

Ref spring ends: So are both of my mid-late1940 era 81 buffer spring ends not touching adjacent coils.

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Welcome---Love the 8/81 Models, have two 81's, both 300 Savage. Like them for their historical history and lore. Have the same love affair for Savage 99's. They were both rifles used in a lot of the old gun and hunting magazines I looked at growing up-dreaming of hunting deer, moose, or elk in the g...

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GTopp: Right on what 81police posted. I've read here on the forum of many guys having problems with their 8/81 magazines only to find the spring was installed incorrectly at some time by a previous owner or themselves. Will work only one way. Besides the video's on the home page, an excellent video ...

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