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Got the diamond magnas on her: 16 by Paul Dubois, on Flickr 17 by Paul Dubois, on Flickr

Okay I thought it looked 0.5” but never measured it.

No it doesn’t I was going to ask because it looks like it has target trigger and hammer and I understood the letter would state if it shipped with those. If so maybe they were upgraded later? The letter is posted with the pictures in my other thread.

Not looking for an exact date just trying to narrow it down to a year which I think we’ve done.

Very nice and very close serial number 808 lower. And shipped almost 2 years before mine.

I think I know what happened: “Hey Bob, I found a 3 year old gun in the vault that doesn’t have any of the new features. What should I do with it? Ship it to Canada they won’t know the difference” :)

Thanks for all if the replies I learned a lot. Here are a few pictures to go with the thread. The rod doesn't have the band cut as mentioned, and it is righty tighty. I see that the SCSW mentions: "Early no dash 4-screw: About double (value). I guess this is considered a 4-screw with the...

I realize that I just wish that was something that got recorded because to me that's more important than when it shipped.

It does thread right. I’ll post a few pics in a bit.

I’m more interested in when it was made than when it was shipped.

Just going by the date range in the catalog and the fact it has all of the things that were supposedly changed in 1960. Didn’t realize 1960 didn’t mean 1960. A 1960 ship date makes sense it’s the 1962 date that seemed odd. I’ll confirm the extractor rod part when I get home.

Ok thanks I was about to become more confused :confused:

Great info but this gun has no dash after the 27. Are you saying this should be referred to as a 27-2 or did you mistype? Thanks

Interesting. But besides an early serial number the trigger guard screw and assuming the extractor being right hand would indicate assembly prior to 1960

That makes sense. I was thinking maybe it fell behind a shelf and wasn’t discovered for three years lol

I haven’t checked the extractor thread but it does have the trigger guard screw. Plus the S200xxx serial number is pretty early.

Interesting. It was shipped to Canada so maybe that has something to do with it. I wish they’d give a date of manufacture and a ship date.

I received my factory letter on my M27 no dash S200xxx yesterday and was surprised to see that it shipped in April 1962. I’m perplexed as to how a gun that should have been made in 1959 shipped in 1962 when the 27-2 would have been shipping. Any thoughts?

Good I have a nice set of diamond magnas to go on it. Still perplexed about the ship date. Did this gun get lost in the factory for 3 years?

Got my letter back on this gun and it has a ship date of Apr 6 1962. I thought it was a 1959. Seems odd as the 27-2 was out for a year at that time. Does “checkered walnut grips” mean magnas?