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Offline eublepharis

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BAR manufacture dates
« on: March 26, 2008, 06:00:57 AM »
Brownings web site says:
"In 1969 Browning started using two digits for the date of manufacture:
M=BAR High Power Rifle
This was then followed by the serial number beginning with 1000.
Example: 69M1000 = A 1969 BAR High Power rifle with a serial number of 1000"

My BAR in 30.06 has a serial # with a little different convention.  Mine is XXX67M71.  I assume it was made in 71, because BAR production started in 68. 

Is Brownings web site inaccurate with year (69) before M (=BAR high power rifle) followed by serial # beginning with 1000, or is the serial # on my gun stamped wrong?

If someone with a BAR made between 68 and 75 could check there serial # to see if the year is first then M then serial # or serial # then M then year.

Thanks!
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Re: BAR manufacture dates
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2008, 02:58:56 PM »
The proper sporting B.A.R. serialization is:

1967="M7" suffix after serial #, 1968="M8", 1969= "M69", 1970="M70",  1971="M71", 1972="M72",
1973="M73",  1974="M74", 1975="M75", 1976="M76" (some),
(some)1976 to date= New sequence, starting with "RT" appearing in the middle of the serial #,
1977="RR"  ,1978="RP",  1979="RN",  1980="PM",  1981="PZ",   1982="PY",   1983="PX"'
1984="PW", 1985="PV", 1986="PT",  1987="PR",  1988="PP",  1989="PN", 1990="NM",
1991="NZ",  1992="NY",  1993="NX",  1994="NW",  1995="NV",  1996=NT",  1997="NR",
1998="NP",  1999="NN",  2000="MM",  2001="MZ"  2002="MY",  2003="MX",  2004="MW", 
2005="MV",  2006="MU", 2007="MT", and 2008="MS".
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Re: BAR manufacture dates
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2008, 04:10:23 AM »
Rangr,

Thanks, I am still confused though?  On Brownings web site, they say that production of the BAR started in 1968.  If I am reading your response correctly, looks like I may have a 1967?  Do you have a source for that info that you can share?  Thanks!
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Re: BAR manufacture dates
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2008, 06:07:05 AM »
[If I am reading your response correctly, looks like I may have a 1967?]

I believe you're misreading my response.

[Mine is XXX67M71.]

  A BAR serial number, with an "M71" suffix at the end of the serial number (XXX67) indicates 1971 manufacture.

[Do you have a source for that info that you can share?]

The Blue Book of Gun Values by S.P Fjestad

http://books.google.com/books?id=dtXAksiLURkC&pg=PA367&lpg=PA367&dq=browning+bar+%22sp+fjestad%22+blue+book&source=web&ots=wu_O01itZJ&sig=eJMudFO7XW_wmSjq4p-IwBw_lJA&hl=en#PPA366,M1
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Re: BAR manufacture dates
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2008, 07:56:10 AM »
Your right, I wasn't reading all the way across your first line.  it is a '71.  Thanks!
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Re: BAR manufacture dates
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2008, 03:45:09 PM »
You're welcome !   8)
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