It was manufactured sometime in 1977 and has the serial number SP168320. Swiss Schmidt-Rubin rifles do not have the date of manufacture stamped on any of the rifle parts, so determining when the rifle (and mismatched parts, if any) were manufactured must be determined from the serial numbers.
(marked as "Russian Nagant") Stock - 1939 dated M28/30 stock, some stripes on the butt of the stock.
The 5th character of our 11 character product serial numbers will indicate the last number of the year that it was manufactured. To obtain date of manufacture on a Model 70 made after 1992 please contact the Winchester Customer Service Department at 80. The remaining four digits of the serial number indicate the production number for the watch.
10 Products The design was refined and the actual pistols were manufactured by These listings inform you of the pistol's date of Serial numbers for the. Simple and quick, this page allows you to determine the exact date of manufacture of a Seiko watch basing on the caliber and serial number printed on the bottom plate or in the edge. Based on Sako's records 77,234 L461 rifles were made between late 1962 and the end of 1973, averaging 7023 per year. If you want to find out as much information about the car before purchasing it, start with the serial number. Please note that these old manufacturing dates are only indicative. YEAR SERIAL NUMBER YEAR SERIAL NUMBER YEAR SERIAL NUMBER. This would be an A-Bolt Gold Medallion rifle,manufactured in 1985 with the serial number 01001. The first L579s didn't hit until 1960, maybe late '59 That serial number indicates early '70s production When was my sako AIII rifle serial number 549414 manufactured? Unfortunately, the current owner of SAKO (Beretta) does not publish date of manufacture tables for NEW Sako rifles. The name Finnbear refers to the 30-06 length rifles. The letter corresponds with a year and the number signifies a. DO NOT ship the firearm as this is a federal offense. The serial numbers 300,000 – 499999 were reserved for the Sako L579 Forester. Such a scope can be mounted (preferably with rings contemporaneous with the rifle) low enough to offer practical eye alignment and be much better adapted to real world shooting.1994-1998. I'd recommend replacing the scope with one which has no objective bell and will sit to the rear of the ladder sight. The problem with this is that the L46 stock comb is rather low, so with the very high scope mounting you will find it impossible for your cheek to even touch the stock when your eye is aligned with the scope. The mounts are very high, as they have to be with this particular scope since it has to clear the ladder sight. The scope mounts are very late Sako Optilocks from the 2000's, which seem out of place on a rifle 50 years older.
I do have one strong criticism of the way it is set up. While it is a very desirable rifle, this model is not scarce enough to be what most people would regard as "collectible". Such a rifle is only "collectible" in the sense that a Sako enthusiast might want one like it if he didn't already have one. Its serial number likely places it somewhere in the mid-1950's, but as Paulson says, that can be misleading and the only way to know when it was made is to consult the Club's factory records service.