Can someone shed light on how to tell the year of manufacture on model 700 series Remington rifles?
The BlueBook of Gun Values has some info in the back but the letters used for year of manufacture repeat themselfs. Is there a website that has some info-the Remington website has nothing on this I could find.

Well i use the remington site for that info.What you have to do is go to support then the help center and ask a question it takes about 3-5 days for them to get back to you here is a link directly there http://remington.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/remington.cfg/php/enduser/home.php good luck
They should be able top answer any question you have.

http://www.remingtonsociety.com/BLACKPOWDERX.htm

Remington Dates of Manufacture

The following serial number information is for Remingtion firearms manufactured between 1921 and 1972.

Remingtons manufactured between 1921 and 1972 have a code located on the left side of the barrel near the frame that identifies the year and month of manufacture.

The following letters correspond to the year of manufacture starting in 1921 and ending in 1972:


M - 1921 C - 1934 SS - 1947 G -1960
N - 1922 D - 1935 TT - 1948 H - 1961
P - 1923 E - 1936 UU - 1949 J - 1962
R - 1924 F - 1937 WW - 1950 K - 1963
S - 1925 G - 1938 XX - 1951 L - 1964
T - 1926 H - 1939 YY - 1952 M - 1965
U - 1927 J - 1940 ZZ - 1953 N - 1966
W - 1928 K - 1941 A - 1954 P - 1967
X - 1929 L - 1942 B - 1955 R - 1968
Y - 1930 MM - 1943 C - 1956 S - 1969
Z - 1931 NN - 1944 D - 1957 T - 1970
A - 1932 PP - 1945 E - 1958 U - 1971
B - 1933 RR - 1946 F - 1959 W - 1972

For the MONTH of production......

B - Jan
L - Feb
A - Mar
C - Apr
K - May
P - Jun
O - Jul
W - Aug
D - Sep
E - Oct
R - Nov
X - Dec

Thus WMM would be: August of 1943

Using barrel codes (such as those listed above) to date the manufacture are reliable on Remington rifles, as the company rarely changed barrels on a customer's rifle.

Using these barrel codes to date a shotgun is somewhat unreliable, as shotgun barrels are often interchanged at random. One needs to be sure that the barrel is original to the gun before trusting the Barrel Code listing, above.