Remington 541X US Property marked.

[BB57]

I stopped in briefly at a local gun show on my way to the airport to fly to an airshow. I got there just as the door opened looking for a Girsan P1 (with no luck). I passed by a surplus dealer who usually has good deals, and noted a Remington 541X on his table with the military trainer stock and sure enough it was US Property marked.

Remington produced 9077 of these in 1984-86 under military contract. The date code on this one dates to October 1984, and the CMP shipping label on the box indicates it shipped from CMP south on October 1, 2001.

The surplus dealer was selling it for his uncle who thought he’d had it for about 20 years. It was US property marked with a CMP box and appeared to be new, unfired with the open box and foil.

It was priced at $700. I poked around on the internet for a couple minutes, then offered $650 cash and he said “ok”.

To be honest that was the going rate about 4-5 years ago for a US Property marked 541X in excellent condition. I also saw a new in the open box auction with one of the auction houses with an expected price in that range that actually sold for $1495, but that’s probably an outlier, and to be honest this one won’t be unfired for long.

It will go with the rest of the trainers, Springfield M2, Remington 513T, Mossberg M44US, and Winchester Model 52A:

Kimber 82G:

 

[BB57]

There’s also its 540XR sibling. Same basic action but in single shot form, with a two way adjustable stock, and a pretty decent adjustable trigger:

And it’s 541S sporter version:

 

[rkwood]

Great find. If you haven't already purchased any of the metal 5rd 541/581 magazines made by John Reed of Maryville, TN you should consider doing so. They're $70 each, but will last forever and you won't be wearing out the plastic OEM magazines.