Serial Numbers Manufacture Date

  

  1. Springfield Armory Serial Numbers Manufacture Date
  2. Colt Ar15 Serial Numbers Manufacture Dates
  3. Winchester Manufacture Dates Serial Numbers

Please enter the serial number of your firearm below and click search. This application only works for firearms imported and distributed by Beretta USA Corp. From 1988 to date. If the search does not provide a return, your firearm may be older in which case you should see this link. For the search to work, please enter your serial number in all. Enter your True product's serial number to view specific information pertaining to the cabinet. Would I be right in thinking this is the date of manufacture? Mine are PFS 1953 and PFS 1958, serial numbers 847722 and 920593, respectively. The serial number is usually 2 letters, followed by 6 numbers: 0J123987 The first digit of the serial number is the last digit of the year of manufacture, the second digit of the serial number will be a letter, the letters spot in the alphabet – 2 equals month Then.




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Remington Dates of
Manufacture

The following serial number
information is for
Remingtion firearms
manufactured after 1921

Remingtons manufactured after 1921
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
months of the year, for example B=January, L= February
and so on:

B – L – A – C
– K – P – O – W – D – E – R – X

Barrel Code Location Diagram
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Serial Numbers by date (factory record book)

Numbers
B – JanL – FebA – MarC – AprK – MayP – Jun
O – JulW – AugD – SepE – OctR – NovX – Dec
M – 1921N – 1922P – 1923R – 1924S – 1925
T – 1926U – 1927W – 1928X – 1929Y – 1930
Z – 1931A – 1932B – 1933C – 1934D – 1935
E – 1936F – 1937G – 1938H – 1939J – 1940
K – 1941L – 1942MM – 1943NN – 1944PP – 1945
RR – 1946SS – 1947TT – 1948UU – 1949WW – 1950
XX – 1951YY – 1952ZZ – 1953A – 1954B – 1955
C – 1956D – 1957E – 1958F – 1959G – 1960
H – 1961J – 1962K – 1963L – 1964M – 1965
N – 1966P – 1967R – 1968S – 1969T – 1970
U – 1971W – 1972X – 1973Y – 1974Z – 1975
I – 1976O – 1977Q – 1978V – 1979A – 1980
B – 1981C – 1982D – 1983E – 1984F – 1985
G – 1986H – 1987I – 1988J – 1989K – 1990
L – 1991M – 1992N – 1993O – 1994P – 1995
Q – 1996R – 1997S – 1998T – 1999 (*)U – 2000 (*)
V – 2001 (*)W – 2002X – 2003Y – 2004Z – 2005
A – 2006B – 2007C – 2008D – 2009E – 2010
F – 2011G – 2012

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.

(*)
On 8/9/99, stopped stamping the barrels with the date code.
They continued to mark the date code on the end flap of the shipping box.
They resumed stamping the date code on the barrel on 10/1/01.

Have you ever been at a HamFest trying to figure out just when that rare FT 101e or somesuch was built? You see lots of alphanumerics but not a clue about the date of manufacture. Well, Kevin – K7ZS – of the Willamette Valley DX Club http://wvdxc.org/ , lets his Yaesu geek flag fly as he shares the tricks to decoding Yaesu’s production dates….
The secret to Yaesu’s serial numbers gives you the key to determining a radio’s age

The serial number is usually 2 letters, followed by 6 numbers: 0J123987

Manufacture

Springfield Armory Serial Numbers Manufacture Date

The first digit of the serial number is the last digit of the year of manufacture, the second digit of the serial number will be a letter, the letters spot in the alphabet – 2 equals month Then

C – January
D – February
E – March
F – April
G – May
H – June
I – July
J – August
K – September
L – October
M – November
N – December

Date

Colt Ar15 Serial Numbers Manufacture Dates

Next 3 numbers are a ‘batch id’, and the last 3 numbers are the actual unit within the batch.

Winchester Manufacture Dates Serial Numbers

So, in my example:
0 – in this case probably year 2000, (they don’t provide for producing an exact model over 10 years!)
J – August
123 – batch #123
987 – radio # 987 in batch 123

Impress your fellow Yaesu nerds with this bit of magic!