I have a 700 bdl .270 lh. Serial num starts with E. left side of the barrel is stamped DQ 70. Just wanted to get confirmationwhen it was made Sept 1978, 1996 or 2019.
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700 bdl .270 lh manufacture date
Re: 700 bdl .270 lh manufacture date
Just taking a semi-educated guess.......I would say 1996.
Serial number preceding letters started in about 1975 with "A".
About every five years they incremented the letter.
About 1980 it became "B".
About 1985 it became "C".
If that carried out every five years, the early 1990s would have been "D".
And later 1990s would have been "E".
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Re: 700 bdl .270 lh manufacture date
Thanks, that's the way I was leaning as well.