We just don't know and Roy hasn't indicated if records exist of various guns in various stages. Probably in the vault.Īll an adjacent serial number means is that the guns were probably in production at the same time, maybe even side by side for a few steps in the production process, maybe separated on different racks, too. But there was a time frame where you almost couldn't give away a Heavy Duty or Outdoorsman. We also know S&W made some ugly ducklings. Even if there isn't a ready and willing customer. Its just cheaper and easier to build the same configuration guns at the same time. They also completed some batch blocks of guns. If they have a completed gun, and a willing customer, they ship it. They, like all other business entities have cash flow problems and concerns. It may be important that those may be the same day, or a date years later. The letters we beg from Roy indicate another date, the date they're shipped from the vault. It doesn't mean they were all completed the same day or week, just that someone went to the effort to assure they had similar numbers.įrom what I can glean from the books on the subject, S&W logs in guns when they move from production/inspection to the "vault", the place where they're shipped from. It means if they want to build a comemmorative, all the guns have sequential numbers. S&W is known to hold blocks of numbers for some purposes. Its also probably important that those methods may have changed over time (remember, they've been in business for a while.) Part of our confusion comes from us not having a clear idea of how and when they were assigned, and how and when assembly numbers were assigned. We sometimes debate their efficiency at tracking serials.
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