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Originally Posted by outobie
I called S&W and they said I'd need to submit a form to get the actual history but their best guess was that it was manufactured around 1987.
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Another of many examples of why it is useless to "call the company" to ask about "born on" dates. The people who answer those phones don't have a clue and it would better for everyone if they just said "I don't know."
What your gun has is the so-called "floating J" serial number. It has the J and no more than 5 digits and the J "floats" down the line. These numbers ran from 1J1 to 999J99, and they were assigned only in 1971-1972.
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their best guess was that it was manufactured around 1987
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Heck, by 1987, the J serial numbers were long gone and the 3-alpha, 4 digit numbers had been in use for several years.