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Many of the stagecoach scenes in western movies feature double-barrel shotguns like the Remington Model 1882 featured in this article. In fact, most of these double barrel shotguns were probably used to shoot rabbits and quail, rather than to ward off bandits. I've got a beautiful Remington Model 1882 that was made in Ilion, New York. Case hardening was the process used to harden the locks and the receivers on most 19th century doubles. It yielded some beautiful colors, most of which are preserved on this Model 1882.
Notice the beautiful hammers as well. The primary purpose of a hammer, of course, is to fire the cartridges, but a well-styled hammer adds a real touch of elegance to any gun. Double triggers are pretty much standard on all 19th-century double barrels. This gun features a pistol grip, which was standard production, but a few of these guns will be seen with a straight grip English-style stock.
Steel butt plates were standard on the early production Model 1882's.
This gun has Damascus steel barrels, which differ from twist steel, although both of them are made under the same process of twisting and forging alternating layers of iron and steel together under intense heat and pressure.
This model was made from 1882 to 1888. Approximately 16,000 were produced. This particular gun is a 13,000 serial number range, which puts it made about 1886. This is the first Remington model to feature what we now think of as a standard top lever that opens the gun.
The front trigger fires the right barrel, and the back trigger fires the left barrel.
The forend on this gun is easily removed by pulling down the lever in the middle of the forend iron.
One last interesting note: the slots, and all the screws along the underneath of the Model 1882 featured in this article are headed true north and south, which means they were lined up that way at the factory and probably have not been turned since.
There you have it, the Remington Model 1882, an American classic.
--Larry Potterfield
