Confused Browning

[rembolt]

Picked up a 2017 shot show Silver hunter matte 20 ga on the week end . got it home and was looking it over be for stripping it down for cleaning . something about the serial number didn't make sense to me . can you pick out what is wrong with the serial number ?

 

[kamlooky]

Built in 2016 and the stamper wuzz diezlecktitick................?.......................

 

[1963beretta]

Silvers are 113. Yours is stamped 114. Its also in reverse order

 

[rembolt]

Silvers are 113. Yours is stamped 114

Winner Winner chicken dinner . Yup the 114 is the prefix for a gold hunter 20ga .

 

[1963beretta]

Its strange what Browning does sometimes. My Silver has Gold stamped on the barrel. I think they used left over barrel blanks for the early production silvers

 

[257Wby]

It's the ALCHEMY model....

 

[rembolt]

Yes I can understand how that could happen when they first changed from the gold to the silver . But stamping a silver with the 114 prefix 8 years after the switch over is a bit strange .

 

[1963beretta]

Yes I can understand how that could happen when they first changed from the gold to the silver . But stamping a silver with the 114 prefix 8 years after the switch over is a bit strange .

Agree...maybe the stamper was hitting the bottle while on lunch

 

[VictoryXC]

Its strange what Browning does sometimes. My Silver has Gold stamped on the barrel. I think they used left over barrel blanks for the early production silvers

My Silver also has a Gold barrel on it.

 

[1963beretta]

My Silver also has a Gold barrel on it.

If your barrel was stamped Mossberg 935, Im sure it would kill more birds

 

[rembolt]

I just went and checked the barrel . it is stamped silver but with the same 114 model code .

 

[1963beretta]

Strange!

 

[rembolt]

To add to the mystery the carton sticker does not say Silver Matte Hunter . which I did note on the box of the 26" barrel model I had out of the box . but this one had much nicer wood .

 

[Cintax]

If your barrel was stamped Mossberg 935, Im sure it would kill more birds

Hahaha

 

[leveractionjunkie]

If your barrel was stamped Mossberg 935, Im sure it would kill more birds

LOL Thats awesome

 

[VictoryXC]

If your barrel was stamped Mossberg 935, Im sure it would kill more birds

Borrowing a quote from Superbrad: "Two Maxus, one silver, a citori, an sx3 and one *cough* mossberg....."

 

[1963beretta]

Borrowing a quote from Superbrad: "Two Maxus, one silver, a citori, an sx3 and one *cough* mossberg....."

Dont be jealous!

 

[VLT79]

The reason for that is because the 20ga Silver is actually a 20ga Gold Classic. They renamed it Silver at the same time as they introduced the then new 12ga Silver. There are only very minor differences to the breech bolt as far as I remember. Due to low production numbers of the 20ga they never bothered changing out the tooling for the barrel roll stamps and serial number engravings. As far as I know all 20ga Silver models carry the Gold "114" serial number prefix.

 

[Rotorwash]

if your barrel was stamped mossberg 935, im sure it would kill more birds

pure gold!!

 

[rembolt]

The reason for that is because the 20ga Silver is actually a 20ga Gold Classic. They renamed it Silver at the same time as they introduced the then new 12ga Silver. There are only very minor differences to the breech bolt as far as I remember. Due to low production numbers of the 20ga they never bothered changing out the tooling for the barrel roll stamps and serial number engravings. As far as I know all 20ga Silver models carry the Gold "114" serial number prefix.

I do realize that the 20ga gold and the silver are one in the same platform . I owner a silver 20ga previous to this one and I am quite certain it was marked with113 model code .