Model 36 Year

[troy2000]

I have an S&W Model 36 revolver. Blued finish, 2" barrel, fixed sights, .38 Special, serial nr. BNC9XXX. I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me the year it was made or sold....

 

[BC38]

I have an S&W Model 36 revolver. Blued finish, 2" barrel, fixed sights, .38 Special, serial nr. BNC9XXX. I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me the year it was made or sold....

If I'm reading the 3-letter SN prefix section of the book right, yours would have been produced between February 1993 (start of the BMB prefixes) and March 1993 (start of the BNW prefixes).
But that is just when it was built - not when it shipped.

If I'm reading the book wrong, then someone with more knowledge will certainly be along shortly to provide the correct info.

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Most Chiefs with BNC serial numbers in the database have SPEC
ORD codes of 21xx, meaning the guns were completed after the
100th day of 1992.

 

[BC38]

Most Chiefs with BNC serial numbers in the database have SPEC
ORD codes of 21xx, meaning the guns were completed after the
100th day of 1992.

AHA! So the dates in the book ARE ship dates - not manufacturing dates? Good to know.