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Originally Posted by TNZ71
I just acquired another Model 908.One has tradition roll marks and the other is laser etched. I kinda like the roll marks better but what is strange is the serial number for it looks to be a little newer. Rollmarked prefix is VJP and lasered one VJC. Which came first?
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My amateur research says that your roll-marked VJP is most likely older than your laser-marked VJC pistol.
Consider the following:
1) My only VJP pistol is a Model 5943. Supposedly, the Model 5943 was
only manufactured in 1991. That shows how far back a VJP prefix was used.
2) My only Model 908 (in black) was manufactured in early-1996. The slide is still roll-marked as of that date (Feb 1996 date on box). The prefix is VDK.
3) I have a VJB pistol and a VJD pistol (sorry, no VJC yet - I'll have to go buy one!
). Both of those guns are CS models, which are laser-marked (of course) and
had to have been manufactured during or after 1998 (when they were first introduced). That helps narrow the date range a bit for your laser-marked Model 908.
EDIT: See post #3 below... VJC = 1998.
4) There are a couple other dates vs serial numbers that I should have been able to check, but I can't reach the damn boxes right now.
I also have a Model 5906 with a VKN prefix. It was made in 1997... not that it really matters here.
But even without those last box dates, you can see clearly that the V??xxxx serial numbered guns jumped around a bit. I think you can rest assured that your roll-marked 908 is the older of the two.