I currently have Hogues for range work installed on my 28-2,4-inch. I also have the wooden stocks that came on it. However the serial number on them is one number off from matching the number on the gun. Is this normal?

Also, I sure would like to see the stocks you have on your 28s.
Thanks in advance

I just saw the M28 thread again, so please disregard the stock pics unless you want to show them again. I'm still wondering about the numbering on the stocks though. Thanks.

No, it's not normal. The serial number on the stock should exactly match the revolver's serial number.

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Steve
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If it's a retired cop gun, often the pistols would go to the department armorer for cleaning and service. The guns would be field stripped... several at a time... with stocks from all the guns spread out on the table... need I say more on how stocks only one number off could be on your gun?

Or the mix-up occurred on the assembly line. Or the number was stamped incorrectly.

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thanks XTrooper and SaxonPig.

I bought (new) my first M28 in 1978. The number stamped on the stock didn't match the gun SN...

I agree, I have had several like that over the years. Mass production?

This pic shows the original magnas that came on my 4 screw, and the custom cutdown targets I have on it now...

The stocks on my 28-2 (Serial # 96xx, circa 1969) are stamped with the same exact serial number as the revolver itself. In my experience, this is the norm for revolvers of this time period and earlier.

I honestly don't know what happened as time went on. However, it would be pointless to take the time to stamp a revolver's serial number on a set of stocks and not mount them on that corresponding revolver.

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I think it is just like Saxon Pig suggests. The problem most likely occurred when the department armoror had the stocks off several at the same time.

I have a nickel M10-6 with stocks that "almost" match. Where the revolver has an "8" in its s/n, the stocks have a deeply struck "3" which at a glance could be mistaken for an "8". Somewhere along the line, either at the factory or later on, someone was too vain to wear his glasses (or he needed new ones) and switched the stocks. Stuff happens.

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I work in a machine shop on aircraft components and last week one of the older guys (ok he is older than dirt) went to wipe his glasses and discovered one of the lenses had fallen out some time before! Hilarious!

he's a great guy could have retired years ago but always comes in, runs the **** out of a CNC lathe and always cheerful and helpful.

Well I guess I got a little bit off topic here but it does show what can happen in a production enviroment.