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I have noticed over the years a few unusual coincidences regarding the firearms I tended to keep for a long long time.
Example my first .22 rifle, a Winchester 490 its first two characters in serial number "J0" and my first name is Joe.
Years later while serving in the Airforce I answered an add in a buy and sell year 2000 for an in the packing grease Garand from a recently returned member of the PPCLI from Bosnia. He planned to get out and needed quick cash for a welding course.
Serial number last three digits of 441. And at the time I was serving in 441 Sqn at Cold Lake.

I purchased an old Whitney Navy revolver and I learned just recently it was post civil war inspected for continue service USN. And a large naval weapons shipment sent to Key West anti piracy station to outfit the USS Dale. I have been to Key West and was quite intrigued by its long military history.

Does anyone else have similar stories?
Curious....
 
Sort of. Back when I had a tractor salvage yard, I also had a firearms dealer licence. We had ordered several CZ75 pistols. One day the shipment showed up, and at coffee time, we dug into the boxes. Lo and behold, the very first one we opened had a serial number that was same as the last four of our shop phone. Guess which one I kept!
 
Not the same kind of personal connection, but I have a set of Ruger M77 MKII rifles with sequential serial numbers but chambered for .257 Robert's, 7X57 Mauser and .350 Rem Mag... nobody can figure out how that happened...
 
I have a firearm that's last 3 digits in the serial number are "666".

But I'm not superstitious.

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I do not have any significant numbers in the serial's, but I did inherit some oldies, a winny model 1906 that I believe was manufactured in 1914, it may have been in the family past my deceased grandfather, and a couple other oldies, a M17 303 (.311) bore that was rechambered to .311-308 Norma. I'm a lefty and have no use for it, but it may be a candidate for a rebarrel to a more common round and some mods and one off lumber one day. I have a timney trigger and some pieces of walnut I'd like use for a build but really don't need another large caliber. a 375H&H or 338WM would be fun though.
 
I got an ithaca 37 i keep as i broke my nose shooting it as a kid. Tried shooting straight up at a crow stock slipped as i pulled the trigger and my thumb slammed into my nose. I lost alot of blood but kept shooting. Still have the gun with the same cut off stock. Not a trace of bluing left on it. Im planning to have a stock set made for it
 
NAA said:
I have a firearm that's last 3 digits in the serial number are "666".

But I'm not superstitious.
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Years ago at the Recruiting Centre I started doing a kid's paperwork and the next Service Number on the list ended 666. I politely advised him of the significance of the number, and that he would be wise to refuse.
 
Not a number coincidence, but I had a February 1945 date block G43 once. It was the only rifle I've ever handled that gave me the willies, not even Finnish Capture SVT40s that were taken off frozen Russian corpses. It was like I could feel the crushing anguish and pain of the people who were forced to make it. Either they were slaves or miserable from working in the cold, damp and hunger of late WW2 Germany. I sold that rifle as fast as I could.
 
hoytcanon said:
Boyd's makes stocks for the Ithica 37... in walnut too;


https://www.boydsgunstocks.com/product-configurator
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When i looked into them the measurements were not exact for the featherweight in laminate at the reciever so i passed. Ill check again in case the walnut version is different. Ithaca wants $300 usd plus tax shipping and import fees. I have a beautiful walnut slab that id like to have made into an english style butt stock i just havent stopped in to see a local stock maker yet
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
Not a number coincidence, but I had a February 1945 date block G43 once. It was the only rifle I've ever handled that gave me the willies, not even Finnish Capture SVT40s that were taken off frozen Russian corpses. It was like I could feel the crushing anguish and pain of the people who were forced to make it. Either they were slaves or miserable from working in the cold, damp and hunger of late WW2 Germany. I sold that rifle as fast as I could.
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Interesting. It's weird what some people pick up from things. Not all, but many of us forget the reality that alot of milsurps were used to kill... people. It probably sounds crazy but I would have liked to handle the rifle and see if it gave me the creeps too, but probably better to pass it along, who knows what stories it had to tell.
 
One of my Remington Model 7's, older model, has a serial number comprising of 0's & 7's, ending in 007, cool..
 
I have never had any luck with el numeroh 13.
Bawt a dirt bike, last three numbers of the serial number were 13.
Third day I had it someone broke into the garage and stole it.
Lots of t'uther exampulls of bad happen'ins with this number.
Lot number 13 of one home I lived in.
Address had the two numbers in reverse order.
Couldn't git me arse out of that place fast'nuff.

Ohh the 13 digit stories...................................:runaway:

I won't buy anything now with those two numbers in a serial number.
 
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