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Originally Posted by Big E3
I had always believed that my K38 serial # K817xx was a 1950 but not sure now. I found this one with Pachmayr's on it at a LGS, no chance of finding the original grips. I have targets on it for now with hope for finding period correct diamond magnas. The info here on this site is nothing short of amazing.
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You are very likely to be correct in your estimate of a 1950 ship date. K78197 shipped in February of that year, and one numbered just slightly higher shipped in January. I suppose it is possible a few guns in the K81xxx range made it out of the factory in December 1949, but that doesn't feel quite right to me. I'll be happy to be corrected if someone has a K81xxx K-38 that letters to late 1949.