Latest Serial numbers on 15-22

[paul s]

Bought today #DZV In TN. You think they will ban semi .22 rimfires?

 

[Majorlk]

Bought today #DZV In TN. You think they will ban semi .22 rimfires?

There's already a thread on this subject.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-wesson-m-p-15-22/283364-will-15-22-fall-under-awb.html

 

[les strat]

MOE, in FDE (so threaded barrel), purchased 11.24.12

DZV

Same here. Bought yesterday.

 

[Ceapea]

All right, I tried to read all of these posts, but there are a lot! I stopped just short of finishing pg 3.
I recently bought a used, but very new looking, 15-22. So new as a matter of fact, I thought it was only a few months old. A member at my gun club passed away a few weeks back and his widow was selling some of his guns. She had a lot of help from some very long time friends of her husband and fellow members at the club. I paid $325, it is a "standard" model.
It is a very early DTH series. I can find no colors on any springs, it came with one mag marked "22" and another marked "22-25 rounds." The mags look identical, what was the problem with the old model? The owners manual is dated 062209, no star of any color.
I have somewhere around 550-625 rounds through it and have only had one, maybe two to three failures of any kind.
I had no idea there were so many little "issues" and fixes for said issues. What is it that I should expect? Maybe nothing with several hundred rounds and so few problems.
What do the series of springs fix?
Yikes! I don't even know what else to ask...

Thanks.

 

[lightsluvr]

Mine is a MOE just received from dealer, serial # DZW####

LL

 

[b0bbymc]

Got mine on 12/19/12 and it is "DZY"...

 

[honda250xtrx]

got my black one for christmas from the girlfriend it was purchased on 12/18/12 its a "dzm" and the pink platinum i purchased for her on 11/26/12 is a "dzs" we both are very impressed new owners now time to start the customizing!!

 

[shogun90]

DZVxxxx s/n SKU 811033. Purchased 12/18.

 

[Mrredline05]

well, i've had mine for about a month now, i've been reading all about the serial number, but still don't understand the big deal about it...

anyways, mines a DZP7 with threaded barrel

 

[BP_Z28]

The big deal is now over with so no more serial numbers need to be updated/posted unless there is another problem with this rifle.

 

[Mrredline05]

well, what was the big deal anyways?

 

[Majorlk]

The big deal (about 2 to 2.5 years ago) was problems with out of battery firings caused by a design fault with the springs. All have been replaced long ago and there is no further need to keep track of the S/N.

 

[Mrredline05]

Ahh, gotcha. Well thanks for clearing that up.

 

[84z28]

Picked up mine 12/19/12. Its a DZZ

 

[Missiletech]

Picked up my two and both DZZ's also.

 

[TheLandonMac]

I saw that Davidsons had gotten in a new batch of 15-22's, so I contacted them and asked if they could give me the three letters of the serial numbers. I had them check the models that I am interested in...the threaded barrel model, the unthreaded model and the Talo model. They have an approximate total of 224 rifles available as of now. The serial numbers are DTU****, DTX****, DTZ***, and the latest one "DUA". I have not seen a DUA reported here, so I believe that DUA should be the most current model, and IF S&W has started to produce "latest spec" models , then a DUA gun may have all the fixes incorporated in them. Several if's and assumptions here I know. I also know that at one point S&W said that one could not predict whether or not a rifle would have problems by the serial numbers, but that may not be true now.

I am going to run by my local gun store- tried to go yesterday but got tied up-and see if they have gotten any new stock in with the DUA numbers. If not, and if I decide to buy one now, I'll have them send me the DUA with the highest number. I think one can request this, or at least I know it has been done in the past.

Interesting fact that I turned up with all my poking around here: This is of course taken only from this forum. As far as I can tell from searches on the posts here, S&W 15-22's have the following letter prefixes:
DSZ, DTA, DTB, DTD, DTE, DTH, DTM, DTX, DTU, DTZ, and now DUA. There may be some others, but these are what my search turned up- although I swear that I remember seeing a DTY and a DTW, but maybe I just lost another brain cell.

If we use just the ten prefixes I found, and assuming that the numeric range in each prefix is 0001 through 9999, and not counting the new DUA's, S&W has made at least a hundred thousand 15-22's. That estimate is probably low, since we usually get posts here from those with problems, and everyone doesn't have problems, so a prefix different than the ones I use here could be out there somewhere. If one counted the number of failures reported in this forum the percentage of failures of the numbers made has to be very small. It would be real interesting to know if the number of failures is going down.

my serial prefix is DVP!!!

 

[colt380]

Just got one yesterday thru Davisions, DZV8

 

[Kefka21]

Got my gfs talo version last week, was DZV4... Got my plain ol 15-22 for me to add stuff to and it was DZY5...

 

[string]

Just picked mine up new, model 811033, 12/27/12 at local gun shop in Greenville S.C.
Serial DZV6***

 

[shortshots]

Had a accident with mine just after getting it a while back it was a dww and just got it back a couple days ago with a new lower now dyz5. Glad to have it back and not able to find ammo.