![]() ![]() ![]() Its probably safe to say many gun frames were sequentially numbered at about the same time. We just don't know and Roy hasn't indicated if records exist of various guns in various stages. Probably in the vault.Īll an adjacent serial number means is that the guns were probably in production at the same time, maybe even side by side for a few steps in the production process, maybe separated on different racks, too. But there was a time frame where you almost couldn't give away a Heavy Duty or Outdoorsman. We also know S&W made some ugly ducklings. Even if there isn't a ready and willing customer. Its just cheaper and easier to build the same configuration guns at the same time. They also completed some batch blocks of guns. If they have a completed gun, and a willing customer, they ship it. They, like all other business entities have cash flow problems and concerns. It may be important that those may be the same day, or a date years later. The letters we beg from Roy indicate another date, the date they're shipped from the vault. It doesn't mean they were all completed the same day or week, just that someone went to the effort to assure they had similar numbers.įrom what I can glean from the books on the subject, S&W logs in guns when they move from production/inspection to the "vault", the place where they're shipped from. It means if they want to build a comemmorative, all the guns have sequential numbers. S&W is known to hold blocks of numbers for some purposes. Its also probably important that those methods may have changed over time (remember, they've been in business for a while.) Part of our confusion comes from us not having a clear idea of how and when they were assigned, and how and when assembly numbers were assigned. We sometimes debate their efficiency at tracking serials. It's possible that a large block of serial numbers that appear to be from 1954-55 were not actually used until 1957-58. In one known example a gun with serial S136431 was not shipped until June of 1958. *Note that a number of N frames with serials in the S138000-S140000 range (and the range may be wider either way) are seen that were shipped much later than the serial would suggest should be the case. I dug a little deeper in the link in the above link and this is all I found: 4 1977 Changed gas ring from yoke to cylinder 3 1967 Relocation of rear sight leaf screw 2 1961 Cylinder stop changed, hole in front of trigger 1 1959 Change to LH extractor rod thread 2 1977 Change back to gas ring on cylinder Model 13 No designation used to avoid confusion with air force model 4 1984 Change frame thickness to same as all K frames 1 1962 Change extractor rod to LH thread, eliminate 8 1977 Change to put gas ring from yoke to cylinder 7 1977 Change to put gas ring from yoke to cylinder 5 1962 Screw in front of trigger guard eliminated on 5 1962 1/10" to 1/8" front sight, on standard barrel 4 1962 Screw in front of trigger eliminated 2 1961 Changed extractor rod thread to LH on standard barrel This is about the best you'll get without somebody who has the book of serial numbers manufacture date: ![]()
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