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Identify year made for model 586-6" (Blued)?
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Kernel Crittenden
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I assume what you're saying is it's a M568 with a 6-inch barrel. A Model 586-6 (aka "dash six) is something else, very specific and from a different era.
A gun with a ACJ s/n prefix would of shipped in............
August - November 1983.
The best I can tell you is that the 586-6 designates an Engineering or Production change that took place in 1997. I can't find an ACJ serial number prefix in my book. I have a 586-1 which had changes in 1986. The serial number Prefix of mine is AWU and the entire number indicates it was shipped in 1987. I think the gentleman who wrote the previous response may have made an error typing the shipping date, I believe it may be 1997. That's the earliest you'll find the Model 586-6.
Kernel Crittenden
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I didn't make a mistake. ACJ is a 1983 serial number. Your AWU comes AFTER alphabetically (about 200,000 s/n's later). So a ACJ s/n would be BEFORE your date of 1987. Wouldn't it?
My guess is the gun is not a -6. The OP simply wrote "586-6"" because it is a 6-INCH gun. Common newbie type mistake. It's a no-dash. And the picture is not a -6 gun. You can tell because it has the firing pin on the hammer nose. The -6 had a frame mount firing pin.
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Kernel Crittenden
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Trigger stop on L-frames in the era were not universal. Some guns did not have them. It's not a great picture for showing the trigger era. It could be there, withdrawn into the frame. The trigger stops were also not so hard to remove, leaving just the empty slot behind the trigger.
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