Remington 29-T Trap 12 Ga. 30″ Pump Action Shotgun MFD Circa 1931 C&R

SOLD FOR: $2,525.00

LSB#: LSB260627TM007

Make: Remington

Model: 29-T Trap

Serial Number: 29572

Year of Manufacture: Circa 1931 / C&R

Gauge: 12 Gauge

Action Type: Pump Action, Bottom Ejecting Takedown Shotgun with Tubular Magazine

Markings: The left side of the receiver is marked “Remington”, “TRADE MARK”, “MODEL 29-T”, and “29572”. The left side of the barrel has the Remington Arms company and Ilion, New York address, patent markings, “12 GA.”, “FULL”, and the “PZ” date code.

Barrel Length: 30″, Ventilated Rib

Choke: Full, Fixed

Sights / Optics: There is a light-colored bead at the front of the ventilated rib. The top of the rib is finely matted to reduce glare.

Stock Configuration & Condition: The stocks are two-piece checkered wood with a long finger-grooved forend, rounded pistol grip, straight comb, and a red ventilated recoil pad with a black spacer. There are scattered light scratches, small dings, and handling marks. There is a minor crack on the right side of the buttstock at the toe. The checkering remains well defined. The recoil pad shows surface wear and discoloration. The LOP measures 14″ from the front of the trigger to the rear of the buttpad. The stocks are in Good overall condition.

Type of Finish: Blued

Finish Originality: Original

Bore Condition: The bore is bright. There is no erosion in the bore. There is some fouling in the muzzle and chamber. In this writer’s opinion the bore rates 8/10.

Overall Condition: This shotgun retains about 95% of its original metal finish. There are scattered light scratches and handling marks, light wear at the muzzle and receiver edges, and small spots of discoloration on the receiver. The action bar has wear from operation. The screw heads show light tool marks. The markings are legible, with portions of the barrel address lightly struck. Overall, this shotgun is in Very Good condition.

Mechanics: The action functions correctly.
We did not fire this shotgun.
As with all used firearms, a thorough cleaning may be necessary to meet your maintenance requirements.

Box, Paperwork & Accessories: None

Our Assessment: The Model 29 occupies a brief but revealing period in Remington’s shotgun development. It carried forward the bottom-ejecting arrangement of John Pedersen’s Model 10, with improvements credited to C. C. Loomis, while Remington prepared the side-ejecting Model 31. The Model 29-T brought that established action to the trap field. Its barrel’s “PZ” code dates the barrel to June 1931, the same year the Model 31 entered the company’s lineup. Those overlapping dates help explain the 29’s short life: Remington was maintaining an existing family of sporting guns while introducing its next pump action. The 29-T preserves the specialized target-shooting side of that transition, complete with a solid-sided receiver whose loading and ejection opening is underneath.

Remington’s 1931 catalog shows how deliberately the trap version was equipped. The ventilated rib was machined with the barrel from a single piece of steel, a construction the company emphasized because it avoided a separate rib working loose. The catalog paired that rib with a long forend and finely checkered furniture, and offered different stock dimensions to suit individual shooters. This example’s ventilated rib, extended forend, checkered grip, and 30-inch Full-choke barrel follow that target-gun approach. The same catalog also offered the more modestly priced Model 29S with a matted barrel surface, demonstrating that Remington was serving different levels of commitment within the trapshooting market. The 29-T gives a precise view of what the company put into its dedicated trap gun before the Model 31 became its better-known pump shotgun.