

The letters we beg from Roy indicate another date, the date they're shipped from the vault. It doesn't mean they were all completed the same day or week, just that someone went to the effort to assure they had similar numbers.įrom what I can glean from the books on the subject, S&W logs in guns when they move from production/inspection to the "vault", the place where they're shipped from. It means if they want to build a comemmorative, all the guns have sequential numbers. S&W is known to hold blocks of numbers for some purposes. Its also probably important that those methods may have changed over time (remember, they've been in business for a while.) Part of our confusion comes from us not having a clear idea of how and when they were assigned, and how and when assembly numbers were assigned. We sometimes debate their efficiency at tracking serials.
