The Model 11 was not the last gun that Browning designed for Remington. The Model 11 became one of the early 20th century's premier semiautomatic firearms, and one utilized widely by waterfowl hunters. The original “humpback” design, so closely associated with Browning's namesake company, actually debuted on a Remington firearm. The Model 11 used a short recoil operating system and a tubular magazine, but its most striking design feature was a squared-off receiver that closely resembled the gun that Browning himself would later market as the A5. Most of Browning's early designs had been manufactured by Winchester, but when he and the company could not reach an agreement regarding royalties, Browning took his design to Remington, and they quickly secured the rights to the firearm. This bottom loading and ejecting pump, the Model 10, was primarily known as a service weapon, and some were used during World War I, but the design would also be popular with hunters.Ĭoncurrently with the Model 10, the company launched the Model 11, a John Moses Browning-designed autoloader. The 1900 side-by-side was discontinued in 1910, when Remington launched their first successful repeating shotgun, the pump-action Model 10, designed by John Pedersen. The hammerless design was a favorite of sport and market hunters alike. Until that time Remington's shotgun line consisted primarily of side-by-side shotguns, most notably the Model 1900, which was a basic box-lock action that was designed for use with paper or brass shells and was an unadorned field gun with steel or Damascus barrels. The Lacey Act was passed in 1900 and hunters took to the field to feed their families and for sport, rather than to make a living from selling wild game. The age of market hunting and “plume collecting” had resulted in serious declines in wildfowl populations and legislation, much of it spearheaded by forward-thinking hunters, served to protect duck and goose populations and habitat. The early 1900s marked the beginnings of a nationwide initiative toward waterfowl conservation. Remington Shotgun Designs of the 20th Century In 1911, both Remington and UMC were combined. Marcellus Hartley, a principal in the company, also owned one of the largest ammunition companies in the world – the Union Metallic Cartridge Company. In 1888, this vast business was acquired by Schuyler, Hartley & Graham and others. As the company expanded, they manufactured agricultural implements, bridges, fire engines, steam-powered street cars, typewriters and sewing machines. In 1871, the company began making centerfire pistol and rifle ammunition, and brass shotshells. Remington & Sons, making hundreds of thousands of pistols, rifles and muskets for the Federal Army during the Civil War.
With the entry of his three sons, the business became known as E. Government, entering the arms making business in which they became world famous. In the late 1840s, Eliphalet began making carbines and rifles for the U.S. In 1828, Eliphalet successfully moved his growing barrel operation from Ilion Gulch to what would later become Ilion, New York. Within a few years Eliphalet was making hundreds, then thousands of rifle barrels for gunsmiths throughout the eastern states.
The barrel was so well made that soon local gunsmiths were demanding a Remington barrel for their guns. Working at his father's farm forge, young Eliphalet fabricated a gun barrel and took it to nearby Utica, New York, to have it made into a flintlock rifle. The BeginningĮliphalet Remington II grew up watching his father build flintlock rifles, and in 1816, at the age of 23, Remington decided that he wanted a flintlock rifle that was superior to the guns that were available at the time. Here's a look back at the company's journey to becoming one of the world's premier gun makers and one of the most trusted names for generations of waterfowl hunters. Over the course of its 200-year history, Remington has played a pivotal role in the evolution of waterfowl hunting, from the era of market hunting to today.
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