As you probably surmised by the photo, the Remington model 10 is a pump action shotgun.
This repeating scatter gun was a first for Remington, the first in a fairly short line of pump action shotgun designs.
Designed by the legendary John Pederson, it was introduced in 1908 and served as a "Trench gun" in the Great War.
Barrel lengths and types varied with the grade, as did the chokes.
One unique feature was that the loading and ejection of the shells occurred through the bottom of the receiver, making the gun ambidextrous. This design feature carried over into the model 17 (which was later redesigned as the Ithaca model 37). The magazine held 6 rounds and of course came with a plug for hunting in areas that restricted magazine capacity.
The gun is/was considered somewhat fragile, partly due to inferior gun steel and heat-treating methods prior to WWI.
The model 10 was removed from the Remington catalog in 1929 and replaced with the aforementioned model 17, although a few hundred were built from parts until 1931.
275,542 model 10s were produced in the 23 years of production. If you need to date your model 10, the Remington Society has a chart available, I have transcribed it below, you can see it online here
Production year ending serial #
1907 52
1908 26087
1909 43259
1910 58453
1911 76273
1912 95317
1913 115104
1914 129518
1915 141425
1916 149665
1917 158658
1918 166386
1919 173633
1920 193856
1921 199860
1922 209001
1923 221708
1924 232188
1925 241484
1926 251744
1927 262237
1928 271993
1929 275000
1930 275231
1932 275452
As with most of my Feature Gun articles this one was inspired by a 1923 vintage Model 10-T that was gifted to me by a retired gunsmith, I have not decided what to do with this gun, I guess I will have to see how hard parts are to find. Along with the shortening of the barrel and abbreviating of the stock, the gun is missing the magazine and pump mechanism. Maybe I will find the missing parts and make it a wall display?
