Win model 70 what do I have

Yail Bloor said:
Pretty much settles it no?
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No, the app doesn't recognize letters so it thinks this is serial number 07737, a 1936 manufacture serial.
 
Post 2008 Winchester started putting 3 letters into the serial number as yours has. The little bit of the stock I see doesn't look like pre-64 but really the serial number puts it as post 2008. You have a nice rifle. Shoot it and enjoy it.
 
Markus said:
Post 2008 Winchester started putting 3 letters into the serial number as yours has. The little bit of the stock I see doesn't look like pre-64 but really the serial number puts it as post 2008. You have a nice rifle. Shoot it and enjoy it.
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I don’t think the post Winchester’s have black extractors, I had a couple and still have one.
 
Kawl'im furr kripes sayk.
Ask purrtittant qwestshuns.
And tell'im tuh update their awnline info.

And furrther, tell'im CGN izz wartch'in'im.
 
sharp shooter said:
I don’t think the post Winchester’s have black extractors, I had a couple and still have one.
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From what I can see browsing online some do have a black extractor. The 2008 limited editions have a black extractor as well as some extreme weathers. I have a 90's G serial number classic with a black extractor too. Different beast though. But model 70 serial numbers on that website are only up to I believe 1992. It even says that on the page. I can find a fair number of photos of post 2008 winchesters with black extractors. It seems maybe only a year or 2 of production with the black extractor.
 
Markus said:
From what I can see browsing online some do have a black extractor. The 2008 limited editions have a black extractor as well as some extreme weathers. I have a 90's G serial number classic with a black extractor too. Different beast though. But model 70 serial numbers on that website are only up to I believe 1992. It even says that on the page. I can find a fair number of photos of post 2008 winchesters with black extractors. It seems maybe only a year or 2 of production with the black extractor.
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I don’t think the post 2008’s had them at all. I’m 99 percent sure. I’m also 99 percent sure the Clasics’s didnt have a jewelled bolt. I’m confused on that gun. I can’t belive noboday has clarified this for us.
 
sharp shooter said:
I don’t think the post 2008’s had them at all. I’m 99 percent sure. I’m also 99 percent sure the Clasics’s didnt have a jewelled bolt. I’m confused on that gun. I can’t belive noboday has clarified this for us.
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I have a Classic Super Grade with a jeweled bolt, maybe it was only the Supers that got jeweled though. It has a bright extractor by the way, and it's one of the serial numbers that Winchester lost so I'm not certain of the year of manufacture.
 
Looks to be a post 2008 BACO made rifle judging by the serial number prefix and format and comparing to my 2012 shotshow special, which is a featherweight with a prefix of 35CZY###xx.

I also had a 2009 featherweight with the serial number format of 35AMP###xx

My guess is that it has to be awefully close to a 2011 or 2012 BACO made model 70.
 
I have a Model 70 35AZM###XX I know it is a 2010 built rifle.
From What I can Figure the 35A designates a Model 70 And the ZM depicts the year 10 and I bought the rifle in 2012.
Browning uses letters to signify a date code Z being 1 and M being 0.
It could be a 2013 rifle by the ZX in the sn. but that does not make sense with the barrel markings as it should be marked BACO Inc. if it was a 2013 rifle.
This is a quandary if I have ever seen one.
Possibly it may be a rifle that was build with left over stock right after Winchester closed it's doors in New Haven and Browning took over the assembly of the parts that were available. I know that there were changes in barrel markings for a few years after Browning took over.

Can hardly wait till the truth comes out.

David
 
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