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Offline Woody402

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H&R 28 gauge date of manufacture?
« on: October 19, 2012, 10:07:32 AM »

Here is a picture of my 28 gauge that I grew up hunting with.  It was me and my brothers first gun.  Shot a ton of squirrels with it and a few grouse, rabbits etc.  I was wondering the model number and the date it was made etc. how do you tell what model it is?  I don't have the serial number handy right now but I will look it up tonight when i get home. I think it is in the 20000 range. Thanks.





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Re: H&R 28 gauge date of manufacture?
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2012, 11:24:21 AM »
Year of mfr can be found in the sticky directly above this thread.  ;)

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Re: H&R 28 gauge date of manufacture?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2012, 03:51:00 PM »
That is one sweet looking old shotgun.  looks like it could be a 1915 made between 1915-1942 mostly because of the butt stock. It could also be aModel 1908 standard frame but it don;t look likley to be a heavybreech 1908 frame, serial yr of manufacture should figure it out Kurt
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Re: H&R 28 gauge date of manufacture?
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2012, 01:09:21 AM »
The serial number is A339xxx. I did t think it had a prefix when I first looked it up in the serial number look up.  Looks to be 1940?