- #COLT IDENTIFICATION BY SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBERS#
- #COLT IDENTIFICATION BY SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER#
- #COLT IDENTIFICATION BY SERIAL NUMBER PDF#
#COLT IDENTIFICATION BY SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBERS#
They produced approximately 480,000 riï¬es, serial numbers 3,000,000 – 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, Hydromatic Division. Serial numbers 2,000,000 – 2,999,999 were set aside for Harrington & Richardson. This company produced approximately 240,000 guns, serial numbers 2,000,000 – 2,240,000.
#COLT IDENTIFICATION BY SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER#
The following is a general breakdown by serial number of major types model 03, 04, SMG, model 613 and Lebanon riï¬es. In December of 1960 we started roll marking AR15 riï¬es.
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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.
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The 10,000 guns in the 900k range are believed to include most experimental GX guns and all 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.
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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 IDENTIFICATION BY SERIAL NUMBER 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.