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Old 08-26-2017, 11:11 AM
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I am trying to find the date of manufacture for my model 36. Serial# is 351200, new in box. It is a 2"
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Well, Jon, ballpark will be 1963-65.
The catalog is very vague on the early j frames.
Hopefully someone can give you a closer date.
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Welcome aboard from Wyoming, Jon.

Does your Chiefs Special have a flat latch and diamonds around the grip escutcheon, like the one in the photo? Yours might have a round butt instead of the square butt in the photo.

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A Model 36 with serial # 353801 shipped in September, 1964, so that should give you a pretty close ballpark estimate. Yours should have shipped wearing diamond stocks and the flat latch (third style).
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Good morning,
I am trying to find the date of manufacture for my model 36. Serial# is 351200, new in box. It is a 2"
Thank you very much
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Most likely September 1964. Your serial number is in the middle of serveral in my database, that shipped then. Only a letter would tell you for certain. Pics would be nice!
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WHAT YEAR WAS MY MODEL 36, STAINLESS STEEL, SN R208331, 1 7/8 BBL. ROUND BUTT, MANUFACTURED? THANK YOU.
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WHAT YEAR WAS MY MODEL 36, STAINLESS STEEL, SN R208331
If it was stainless, it was not a Model 36, but a Model 60. To make this certain, we know that the R prefix was not used on the Model 36, carbon steel Chiefs Special.

R208xxx would be from 1978.

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Yes, that was the actual length. However, these were listed as a 2" barrel. 2" is the nominal length, but they rarely if ever actually measured 2".
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