Model 760 Year of Manufacture by Receiver Serial Number??

[satx78247]

Friends,

I found another Model 760 rifle this PM at an out-of-state store & am wondering if someone has a "date of manufacture list" by serial number.
(The barrel was, I believe, changed out when it was rebored/rechambered by JES to 9.3x62mm & thus the "barrel code" is useless for "dating" the rifle.)

The reason that I'm trying to find out the year is that I would prefer to have the 760 shipped directly to me as a C&R Licensee, IF the receiver is 50+ years old.

THANKS for reading this post.

yours, satx

[600RemGuy]

That is something I have never seen. If you indicate the number of digits in the number and the first 3 or 4, we can maybe get you close.

[admin]

50 years old is not the definition of C&R, if has to be SPECIFICALLY listed by the ATF, you can download the list.
The only 760 listed is the "150th Anniversary ADL in .30/06" anything any other 760 shipped directly is illegal, regardless of age.

[satx78247]

REM600,

The serial number is: 69264xx.

SORRY, when I edited the 1st post to this thread, I thoughtlessly removed the SN.

yours, satx

[600RemGuy]

Late late late 1968 or early 1969 is real real close. (would lean on 69) They started sharing the serial number block with the 742 at 6900000 in 11/68.

[satx78247]

600RemGuy,

WOW. THANKS.

The rifle isn't as old as I thought. = I was a senior in college in 68-69.

My other 760 rifles/carbines are dated from 1954 to 1962, so this one is "new to me" in more than one way.
(My "treasure" is a "really plain Jane" 760 made 04/54 in .300 Savage & that used to belong to a small town VA sheriff. - Money wouldn't buy it & it's in my will.= IF I miss something out to 200+ M, it's MY fault.)

yours, satx

[600RemGuy]

Out of curiosity, what does the barrel date to?

[satx78247]

600RemGuy,

Dated: FEB 1968.

yours, satx

[satx78247]

To ALL,

ImVho, we of this forum are BLESSED to have so many HELPFUL members.

yours, satx

[Swamprat]

50 years old is not the definition of C&R, if has to be SPECIFICALLY listed by the ATF, you can download the list.
The only 760 listed is the "150th Anniversary ADL in .30/06" anything any other 760 shipped directly is illegal, regardless of age.

I must respectfully disagree with this statement.
Here is a quote directly from the BATF Website;

To be recognized as C&R items, 478.11 specifies that firearms must fall within one of the following categories:

Firearms which were manufactured at least 50 years prior to the current date, but not including replicas of such firearms;

Firearms which are certified by the curator of a municipal, State, or Federal museum which exhibits firearms to be curios or relics of museum interest; and

Any other firearms which derive a substantial part of their monetary value from the fact that they are novel, rare, bizarre, or because of their association with some historical figure, period, or event.

Firearms automatically attain C&R status when they are 50 years old. Any firearm that is at least 50 years old, and in its original configuration, would qualify as a C&R firearm. It is not necessary for such firearms to be listed in ATF's C&R list. Therefore, ATF does not generally list firearms in the C&R publication by virtue of their age. However, if you wish for a classification of your particular firearm under categories (b) or (c) above and wish your item to be listed, you may submit the weapon to the Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD) for a formal classification.

[satx78247]

Swamprat,

THANKS. - That's what I was told by a BATFE agent at the "BIG" 2015 San Antonio Gun-show.

yours, satx

[admin]

If it's not on the list you better be able to prove it and a date code stamp on the barrel won't cut it, it's not on the receiver. Just trying to save you some lawyer costs if you run into someone with a bug up his ...

[satx78247]

To admin; All,

Actually, inasmuch as the receiver of my rebored/rechambered Model 760 was NOT made 50 or more years ago (The receiver was made in 1968 or 1969.), it isn't C&R, so I bought it through a local FFL dealer.
(Also, inasmuch as 9.3x62mm Mauser is NOT the original caliber, I'm not sure that it could ever be C&R, as it's NOT "in original configuration". = Given the incompetence, evasiveness & obvious lack of honesty of Resident Zero's BATFE policies, I'm NOT at all sure that you can trust anything that the agency says.)

Twenty bucks was a cheap price to get it to me, so that I could start shooting the rifle.

THANKS to ALL for your input. = This is a REALLY NICE rifle, needing only a new recoil pad & installation of the vintage 2.75X Redfield scope to look "near new". = Color me PLEASED with my "find", clear down to the ground.

yours, satx

[admin]

I just don't want to see anyone jacked up by bs....

I've given up because I've had people argue if it takes a cartridge, whatever my FFL is $20 as well.
I gave mine up because of Slick Willy and it's just not worth getting it back again now.

[satx78247]

admin; All,

BE OF GOOD CHEER. = Relief is coming & starting in just 17 more days.
(My "sister of the heart" is very likely to be "a very senior policy-maker" at BATFE within a few weeks & Sarah says that the Trump team is DEAD SERIOUS about "draining the swamp", that has been the last 8 years. = Look for all of Resident Zero's herd of "Gun-HATING morons" to be G-O-N-E, GONE from the various federal agencies & VERY SOON, too.)

Sarah told me last night in a phone call that it is HIGHLY LIKELY that POTUS Trump will sign an executive order on 21JAN17 that STRIKES DOWN all of the executive orders of both the Obama & Clinton regimes & reverses 16 years of leftist FOOLISHNESS & DISHONESTY.
(Despite the howling of "the main-SLIME media" & the leftist DIMocRATS minority in Congress, expect that "Obama's legacy" is FINISHED forever & "dead on arrival". = Using the Nuclear Option, as the DIMs did to pass the horrid/wasteful mess called "Obamacare", is about to "bite them on the rump".)

yours, satx