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COLT 1911 A1 SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS
COLT 1911 A1 SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER
COLT 1911 A1 SERIAL NUMBERS PDF

Each of the brands had unique roll stamps that identified the gun’s maker, model, patent numbers, and noted that the pistols were U.S. A number of manufacturers were building them including Colt, Ithaca Gun Company, Remington Rand, Singer and Union Switch & Signal. Rather than rail at the nonsense, we thought we'd talk sense instead, and see how that catches on.By 1943, World War II M1911A1s featured brown plastic grip panels and a Parkerized finish.

COLT 1911 A1 SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS

They produced approximately 480,000 riï¬es, serial numbers 3,000,000 –Â 3,480,000.Ī lot of nonsense is written about weapons, especially on the Net. Serial numbers 3,000,000 – 3,999,999 were reserved for General Motors, HydromaticÂ Division. Serial numbers 2,000,000 – 2,999,999 were set aside for Harrington & Richardson.Â This company produced approximately 240,000 guns, serial numbers 2,000,000 – 2,240,000.

COLT 1911 A1 SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER

The following is aÂ general breakdown by serial number of major types model 03, 04, SMG, model 613Â and Lebanon riï¬es. In December of 1960 we started roll marking AR15 riï¬es. For a look at a serial number list that draws on multiple sources, see this thread at ARFCOM.–Eds.

We hope this document is of use to collectors and historians.

The number that Mr Northrop did not calculate, totalÂ military Colt AR-15s and M16s Â plus AR-15Â SP1 SportersÂ to the date of whenever his data cutoff was, comes to 2,778,586.

The British contract guns were originally intended for special operations forces including the SAS and SBS.

Prior to 1969 some mil experimentals were made with no serial numbers, and there are duplicate serial numbers in this area as well. A lot of the GXs have serial numbers in the 14xxx range. There are also GXs thatÂ alsoÂ have a serial number as well as the GX number. We believe that there are multiple GXs with the same number. GX’s are tool-room prototypes with a four digit number which is reportedly their master drawing.

We have observed GX’s outside this range.

The 10,000 guns in the 900k range are believed to include mostÂ experimental GX guns andÂ allÂ XM177/E1/E2 guns.The Model 04 Air Force Rifle is rollmarked M16.(The nature of mass production being what it is, this rollmark change took place over a period of months, and is uncorrelated with any physical change to the rifle). The Model 03 Army Rifle was rollmarked XM16E1 until the rifle was type standardized as M16A1 on.The first ~15,000 guns were, as the memo notes, marked as “Armalite AR-15” and these weapons went to the USAF for Security Police use and for testing by the services, including the Project AGILE tests and Vietnam tests by USSF.The first few Colt serial numbers (001-100) were toolroom prototypes and mules, and numbers were reused, and some were built on unnumbered receivers.The complete text is below this editorial comment.

COLT 1911 A1 SERIAL NUMBERS PDF

The PDF is here: M16 Serial Number List OCR. We’ve OCR’d the PDF, and double-checked the numbers against the original data. This memo’s been around as a scanned, non-OCR’d.