The Dreaded SIN#

[kamlooky]

SIN numbers were the norm back in the day.
Then they pushed your drivers licence instead of rh SIN.
Now both arrr deemed unusable.
Have a tool box full of both etchings on old tools.

 

[SuperCub]

OP should put a compass in the butt stock and top it with an old straight tube Weaver scope in Weaver mounts to complete the ensemble.

 

[FLHTCUI]

Tig welder (a good one) could fill the holes then you'd have to file, draw file and repolish and blue or color case the whole receiver.
Back in the 1970's police here in the maritimes went house to house offering to engrave valuables with an electro pencil. Buggered up a lot of nice guns. Still see them now and again. Called it Operation Identification, I think.

Neighbour Hood Watch was a real thing, even here on the West Coast....

 

[Royzo]

Thanks for the feedback.
I’m just going to clean it up a bit and leave it be. Doesn’t hurt the function of the rifle.

 

[*lawrence]

I'd leave it as is.

If you can't live with it, sell it and buy another. It is what it is.

I agree, leave it.

 

[Painkillers]

why would someone put their sin # on a firearm?

It was a thing back in the day. The concern was "this is one of several hundred thousand made, if I lose it and it's found, or if it's stolen and the police locate it, how else am I to prove it's mine?" I have several specimens with said SIN number on them. Some of them are hand downs, others I've picked up along the way.

OP, don't try to cover it, relish in it. Someone cared enough about your rifle when it was his, that he wanted to ensure it got back to him if they were ever parted. Tattooing the wife was frowned on back then...particularly with "numbers". Make no mistake about it though, he loved that rifle every bit as much as his wife. 'til death did they part.".