1969 34-1 ??

vrichard · #1 10-03-2018, 11:01 AM

M Serial Prefix mdl.34-1
1969-1970 M1-M30000

Could this 34-1 with ser.# M3 be the 3rd.one made or one made later?
Dick

Shipped 12/23/70

M29since14 · #2 10-03-2018, 11:10 AM

Wasn’t there a collector with an inside track at the factory that arranged to buy serial number 3 guns? Maybe one of his?

Obviously not the third kitgun. Whether it was the third M-series kit gun made, who knows? If the serial number was set aside, maybe, and maybe not.

JP@AK · #3 10-03-2018, 12:30 PM

It is a persistent myth that guns are assembled in strict serial order. It simply is not true and there is a ton of evidence to the contrary.

vrichard · #4 10-04-2018, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by M29since14

Wasn’t there a collector with an inside track at the factory that arranged to buy serial number 3 guns? Maybe one of

Obviously not the third kitgun. Whether it was the third M-series kit gun made, who knows? If the serial number was set aside, maybe, and maybe not.

M29since ,I understand there 7 serial # 3 S&W made,5 were brought in for sale
in a shop near where i live,2 were sold in a shop in Denver,my friend bought
N3,I bought & have D3,H3,J3,M3.The shop owner won`t say who brought
them in for sale.
Dick