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Originally Posted by Absalom
. . . The gun is from 1971/72. You have to read the SCSW carefully and count the digits. Post-1983 serials have a J within six digits, the 1971/72 series (like the OP’s gun) a maximum of five.
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Originally Posted by two-bit cowboy
. . . it might have shipped in '70. Only a letter from Roy will let you know for sure.
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That's my understanding as well . . . while Absalom's '71/'72 date is 99% correct for the floating J serial numbers with up to five numerical digits, there were a very few in the single digit before the letter J that shipped in late 1970.
trivia: if one assumes an equal number of floating J examples in 1971 and 1972, the '71 versus '72 ship date transition occurs around 54JXXX. If that's not intuitive, consider that there are 10,000 combinations for XJXXXX and only 100 for XXXJXX.
Russ