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Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:47 pm
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I have an a5 with serial number
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can anybody give me information about it, a couple years ago I found something that said it was made in 1926, but now I was looking and the lowest number I could find was 3000. |
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Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:38 am
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| 1924---1st year of production |
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Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:02 am
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Just under 11000 of the T and A prefix guns were built in late '57 and early '58.
T is a standard, A is a Sweet.
This was an transitional numbering system between the 'R' and 'S' before this and the year of mfr in the serial that followed.
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Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:52 am
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| Foursquare wrote: |
Just under 11000 of the T and A prefix guns were built in late '57 and early '58.
T is a standard, A is a Sweet.
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But mine is 1149 not 11049 |
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Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:16 am
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| T is for 1957. Another way to look is if the barrel is marked 2 3/4". Besides a gun with the serial number 1149 would have been made in 1909, and would be chambered 2 9/16". |
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Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:02 pm
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Deadeye,
Foursquare is right. The run of guns with a T prefix started with 1 and ended with 10,900. Your gun was the 1149th gun made with the T prefix.
The gun in question would have been made in late 1957.
Whever told you it was made in 1924 made a mistake. By the way if there was no letter prefix it would have been made in 1909....the first year of FN production of 16 ga A5's.
Hoashooter, the first year the sixteens were made for export to the US was 1923, with 1924 being the frist full year. However they had been making them for other markets since '09.
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Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:18 pm
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the "T" is on a different line it isn't "T1149" it is
" T
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Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:24 am
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Yes I know it is on a different line, but the date I gave you is right.
Who you going to believe? Someone you know who is looking you in the eye or a couple nameless guys on an internet sight who think they know it all (like me and Foursquare) ??? 
By the way, we do know it all.
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Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:24 am
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Yeah, we know.
That's the way they marked 'em.
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Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:53 am
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| deadeyearcher wrote: |
the "T" is on a different line it isn't "T1149" it is
" T
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That's three of us that know the date of the A-5. Is the barrel marked 2 3/4? If anybody would know it's Jeff. |
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Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:10 pm
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It should be marked 2 3/4", but I have gotten reports of guns made for the european market that were marked 65 mm and 2 3/4".
There are some that believ that there were short chambered guns made after the war for non US markets, but I have never seen any proof of that.
You can shoot the 65 mm shells out of a 2 3/4" gun all day long so there was no reason to keep making a short chambered gun.
I only load 16 in 2 1/2" now. Unless I load some more goose loads I just don't have a big need for a 2 3/4" 16 ga. load. (I might, if I lived in pheasant country)
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