SRS check?

[Story]

Please and thank you.

12575 and 40853

Amended question - any SRS hits for 12573x or 12575X (where X = 0 through 9)?

[Tom Trevor]

No hit on either number.

[Story]

Thanks!

[Dick Hosmer]

Rifle and carbine respectively, I'm guessing? If the latter IS a carbine, how "original" is it?

[Story]

If the latter IS a carbine, how "original" is it?

40853 *was* a rifle, now with a carbinized barrel relined by Bobby Hoyt.

As for the legit carbine? Ummm.....you know the groan Lurch on THE MUNSTERS use to make?

Then again, my Mk I eyeball might need recalibrating. Does this look like a sixth digit might have been obliterated by 140+ years of working the action?


Edit To Add: and if it is a sixth digit, any SRS hits for 12575X (where X = 0 through 9)?

Flashbacks to Algebra class....

[Dick Hosmer]

Back the camera off a couple inches so I can see the gas-escape cuts on the receiver rails. FWIW, I make that 12573.

[Story]

Took me awhile to circle back.

Per Poyer p.57, looks like a rounded shoulder cut (99,500 +). Note also the barrel index lines up (p.39)


The V P (eagle) P and there *is* an 'A' (not shown, but post 90,000 per p.38) on the centerline, forward of the receiver.


Bummer. So 12573x or 12575x, 1880.

Not as early as I thought it was, but still neat.

Amended question - any SRS hits for 12573x or 12575X (where X = 0 through 9)?

[Dick Hosmer]

Yes, with that receiver configuration there HAS to be a 6th digit. Actually the receiver change took place between 96271 and 96309. Joe did not keep up to date on that one.

[Story]

Yes, with that receiver configuration there HAS to be a 6th digit.

So are there any SRS hits for those two blocks of ten digits? 12573x or 12575X (where X = 0 through 9)?

[Tom Trevor]

No