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What year was your gun created?

The serial number does not tell that- and it is not unique to only one gun. PS- many of the older rifles in my collection HAVE no serial number. They were not required by law until 1968. Does anyone know if there is an easy (read, through the internet) way to tell when a particular gun was manufactured by way of its serial number? Is there a website or something out there I can consult? I am about to pick up a used gun I just bought from a dealer but he doesn't know the exact history of that gun.

How to search for your firearm or gun date of creation or manufacture via it's serial number. There is unfortunately no one stop shop for this task but hopefully with the help of this lense you will be able to find your firearm by manufacturer below and follow their link in order to track your weapon. Use the links below and please have your model and serial number handy so you can provide it on the corresponding pages in order to find out when your gun was made.

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Colt Firearms

Visit Colt 1911 Website

Colt is known for creating some of the highest quality firearms including the 1911 pistol supported by numerous other awesome standard and tactical pieces of equipment, from rifles to shotguns.


Not able to locate the date of manufacture for your Colt firearm? Well we did some digging and found that Colt offers an archival service for a moderate fee to locate all records of your original Colt shipment. They provide every spec about the gun, who is was shipped to, when it was shipped, and even how many other firearms were shipped at the same time as yours. You can find the order form and specifications of Colt Manufacturing's archival service here.

Browning Firearms

Visit Browning Firearms Website

Browning Firearms has created and manufactured firearms from shotguns, rifles, rimfires, and pistols including many other gun related accessories.

How to find your Serial Number

Use these videos to find the serial number on your gun or firearm.

Glock Firearms

Visit Glock Perfection Website

Here you will find the Glock Talk forums where you can search and chat with individuals who own glocks and can share information with you on finding out 'When was your glock made?' Just click the register link on the top left to start.

Makarov Firearms

Visit MakarovWebsite

Makarov (PM - Pistolet Makarova) - Here you will find the serial number break down by letters and numbers in order to find out when you Makarov firearm was created. This is as simple as matching red to red, blue to blue, or 1 to 1. Ensure you have your serial number handy and visit this site to begin.


Marlin Firearms

Visit Marlin Lookup Website

Visit the link above to find out when your Marlin firearm was manufactured. The website is straight forward and all you have to do is type in the serial number to your gun and BAM you are presented with the date of creation, simple as that. Marlin firearms are kept in a database along with other manufactured firearms for easy reference.


Remington Firearms

Visit Remington Society Website

Firearm dating information about Remington series firearms and guns provided by the Remington Society. You can reference the above website in order to date your firearm by the numbers and letters in the serial number and also learn how to read the serial number to know what each number and letter stands for, just like in a drivers license number.


Sears Branded Firearms

Visit Sears Firearms Website

This is more of a cross reference for Sears branded firearms as well as just about every other manufacturer. This cross reference can be used to figure out which Sears firearm was created by which manufacturer as a mirror model of their own. Then use the links on this lense to look up the firearm that your Sears Firearm is most like to find out the year of manufacture.

Taurus Firearms

Visit Taurus Firearms Website

The Taurus Model Number Lookup System will help you find detailed information about your Taurus Gun. Enter the serial number (no spaces) of your firearm and click on 'Search' to identify your model. (You must click the 'search' button to get your results.

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Winchester Firearms

Visit Winchester Lookup Website

Similar to the Marlin lookup tool above (and provided by the same website) comes the Winchester lookup tool. You can simply visit the above web site and type in your serial number off of your Winchester firearm and TADA the date is quickly retrieved from their database and displayed on your screen. It doesn't get much easier than that.


Firearm Poll - When Was My Gun Made?

If your firearm manufacturer was not listed or covered in this lense. Please vote 'other' below and add a comment as to which firearm you are looking for and I will do my best to find and update the information on this lens for you.

U.S. Military Firearms

Visit US Military Firearms Database Website

Select whether your firearm is a handgun or a long gun and choose the appropriate link to be directed to oldguns.net look up tool. Once there simply search for the date your firearm was created by typing in the serial number in the box.

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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:56 pm
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I LOOKED AT A WINCHESTER MODEL 12 TODAY . THERE IS ONE THING I DO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS GUN . THE SERIAL NUMBERS ARE 4205807 AND BOTH NUMBERS MATCH. THE GUN LOOKS PERFECTLY NORMAL FOR THIS AGE . ALOT OF THE BLUING IS GONE, AND THE NUMBERS LOOK NORMAL. SINCE THEY ONLY MADE A LITTLE OVER 2 MILLION GUNS . HOW CAN THIS NUMBER BE RIGHT? I WOULD BUY THIS GUN EXCEPT FOR THE SERIAL NUMBER. DO YOU THINK THAT SOMEONE HAS BEEN DOING SOME STAMPING OF NUMBERS? THANK YOU



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Post subject: re: MODEL 12 SERIAL NUMBERS
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You could probably check out the serial # in the Blue Book of Gun Values. It'll also help you judge the condition and its value. Serial numbers don't always start with #1 & go up from there. I haven't looked in the Blue Book, but this serial number wouldn't necessarily mean that it was the 4,205,807th gun made. They may have started their serialization at 2,500,000, for example. The fact that the numbers match is a good start.


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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:24 pm
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Post subject: Re: re: MODEL 12 SERIAL NUMBERS
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Joined: Thu May 25, 2006 10:51 pm
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You could probably check out the serial # in the Blue Book of Gun Values. It'll also help you judge the condition and its value. Serial numbers don't always start with #1 & go up from there. I haven't looked in the Blue Book, but this serial number wouldn't necessarily mean that it was the 4,205,807th gun made. They may have started their serialization at 2,500,000, for example. The fact that the numbers match is a good start.

First, the Blue Book is worthless! AND you know little about Model 12s! They did start at #1!
If this is the stamped number then I suggest this number was a mistake.


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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:55 pm
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Location: ILLINOIS
THANKS FOR THE ANSWER OLE COWBOY. NO THE BARREL DOES NOT SAY NICKLE STEEL. THANK YOU


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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:30 am
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Joined: Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:41 pm
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Location: Vancouver Island
Have never heard of an American made Model 12 with a serial like that. The highest Model 12, excluding the Y Models, is 1,999,999; according to Dave Riffle. When the workers at New Haven would stamp two guns with same serial number, they would either send it back to metal finishing and buff off the serial number or they would stamp an x after the serial number.
I've never paid any attention to the off shore Model 12 reproductions; maybe it's one one of these with their own serial numbering. You might be wise to check this further if you're expecting to be buying a real Model 12 rather than get an off shore one hung on'ya. Unless you're okay with one of these. They're probably an alright gun for a shooter.


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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:02 am
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I've never paid any attention to the off shore Model 12 reproductions; maybe it's one one of these with their own serial numbering. You might be wise to check this further if you're expecting to be buying a real Model 12 rather than get an off shore one hung on'ya. Unless you're okay with one of these. They're probably an alright gun for a shooter.

The 'off shore' Model 12s were all 20(Browning & Winchester) or 28(Browning only) gauge with vent ribs and would likely not have most of the finish worn off, and they have a combination of Letters and Numbers in their serial #.


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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:10 pm
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First, the Blue Book is worthless! AND you know little about Model 12s!

You're right - I don't know diddly about Model 12s - not really interested. I'd been thinking about SShooterZ's project to reorganize stickies for newbies in the reloading forum and had just answered another newby question & had newbies on the brain & responded to this in that context without paying attention to which forum it was in. I stand chastened and corrected, and am in awe.
Have to disagree about the Blue Book, though. I've found it helpful in ballparking prices on older doubles.


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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:10 pm
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Joined: Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:40 pm
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Location: Shingle Springs, CA
Hello hamburger and everyone else: Well first off as Moderator, I'll remind everyone, the forum is a place to exchange information, what we've learned, from personal experiences, to what has been written and published, from original factory literature, to various authors.
Myself as Moderator I really have to try hard at times and choose my words carefully, as to not offend anyone!! We all have our own opinions as to 'what's good information and what's bad information!! The point is if you feel someone has used a reference that's not as accurrate as it could be, please feel free to post a better reference. People are only trying to help the original poster out!!
Now hamburger this question has come up before! What I can tell you is serial numbers for the US made Md 12s started with #1 in 1912 and ended in the 2,026,500 range in 1985 with the last special run of 'Y' Md 12s known as the Jaquae order to USRA.
Now sometimes a ' 1 ' can look like an L especially on the one million guns that started with ' 1 '. While I haven't seen every Md 12 ever made, none to my knoledge ever started with a 4 except those in the 400,000 S/N range which would have been 1925-1927 manufacturing years, and the barrel should be stamped NICKEL STEEL or STAINLESS STEEL.
Since numbers can be polished off, especially on receiver extentions, a little harder on receivers, and reapplied. you may have seen a 4,000,000 S/N but it didn't come from the factory!!
BTW the Blue Book isn't totally useless, because I wouldn't sell a pre-64 Winchester shotgun for less than what the Blue Book said it was worth! LOL
For serial number info: I use Dave Riffles book for the Md 1912/12, Ned Scwhings books for the Md 21 and 42. for the others I use Maddis' 2nd edition!!!! His first edition has too many problems, from typos to inaccurate info. If you have a Winchester shotgun, other than a Md 21 or 1897 below S/N 380,000 we have to use Maddis' numbers until something more accurate is published. since the Md 21 and 1897 below 380,000 are the only pre-64 shotguns to letter from the Cody Firearms Museim.
Regards to all
Dave


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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 1:01 pm
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I have the same situation: no serial number.
Is it normal?
How can i identify manufacturing year?
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:41 pm
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Joined: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:56 am
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Location: Maryland
Sure enough, no serial numbers in your photographs. Try taking some photographs of a part of the gun that has serial numbers stamped on it, like the bottom of the gun where the barrel and the receiver go together.


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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:13 am
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Joined: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:35 am
Posts: 59
KvaK,
Took a few visits before I noticed the differently formatted photos at the bottom of your post. Yup, no serial number. Perhaps it was removed to hide some nefarious deed...
As for dating the gun, the best you can do is ballpark by the evidence you do have. The forearm appears to be the 14 groove second style. I think that would make it at least 65 years old. Also, the barrel stamping changed from time to time so your stamp should give you a range.
Dave mentioned Riffle as a resource for model 12's or perhaps a more knowledgeable forum member might chime in and identify the range of dates your gun was manufactured.
Renttis



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