CCI Standard Velocity 22LR 40 grain lead round nose. Is this a rim fire? I shoot a S&W Model 41 and I'm wondering I hope that this helps those of you that are looking for information on the 77 I purchased it at Riley's Sport Shop In Hooksett NH - NOT WalmartĢ magazine clips came with it. The stock DOES have a lighter green color with brown and black too - long streak pattern and that's about right for the time I remember buying it - late 80's I hear your looking for dates and numbers to determine how many made & when I own a Remington Apache 77 22 Caliber long rifle 200K does sound a bit much but then again it was the only nylon rifle being made during the time I believe. I admit that this is purely speculation on my part as I don't have any production numbers from the factory. Even if the production numbers were not that high or production didn't last for the entire 36 months the rifles were offered (1987-1989) I think it would be safe to speculate that there were 100,000 or more Apache 77s made. If one extrapolates those numbers over the 30 months that the rifle was produced you get around 209,000 rifles. If you divide that number by the number of months you get an average of about 7,000.
This has indicated to me that the serial numbers and date codes of Apache 77 ranged from A2335160 in May 1987 and into the A2370140 range in Oct 87.
The barrel code reads 'AM 34' which means a manufacture date of March 1965 (as we understand it).
This is the Apache Black and Chrome finish model made from 1962 -1984. Serial number- None (Note: Remington began numbering this model in 1967, after this gun was produced). I try to keep track of the serial numbers I run across. 599.00 Remington Nylon 66 AB semi-automatic rifle in. I believe Remington's web site indicates approximately 126,000 10Cs made. In terms of numbers of Apache 77 compared to 10Cs. I suppose it comes down to a matter of perspective. The A77 is hardly bright green by any stretch of the imagination. Bright green to me is the green on the Remington box. Since the rifle has a matt black finish, black diamond on the stock it seems like it was made as low key very subtle rifle. It is not very apparent unless you compare a Seneca Green stock next to a Apache Green stock. The blue is rather subtle in that is only represent bluish green swirals in the stock coloring similar to the black grain swirals in the brown stock.
They resumed stamping the date code on the barrel on 10/1/01.All of the Apache 77s that I've seen in the last 3 years that I have been collected nylon rifles have been a rather dark bluish green. They continued to mark the date code on the end flap of the shipping box. On 8/9/99, stopped stamping the barrels with the date code. One needs to be sure that the barrel is original to the gun before trusting the Barrel Code listing, above. Using these barrel codes to date a shotgun is somewhat unreliable, as shotgun barrels are often interchanged at random. 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. Serial Numbers by date (factory record book) – K – P – O – W – D – E – R – X Barrel Code Location Diagram Months of the year, for example B=January, L= February Near the frame that identifies the year and month of Have a code located on the left side of the barrel