Ruger Serial Number Lookup

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Ruger Customer Service Change

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FYI

The sometime series number dating charts are gone from the SN lookup department of Customer Service, replaced by a search window in which to enter the SN.

https://www.ruger.com/dataProcess/serialHistory/

The website and so gives 1 the model number, a photo, guess ship engagement and a link to the latest possessor's manual and spec sail.

The website so gives ane the model number, a photo, approximate ship date and a link to the latest owner'southward manual and spec sheet.

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Works ok for newer models ninety'due south and newer. Older models you become a, serial number not available, coil down and select the model and a send date chart similar to before appears.

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diffy40 wrote:Works ok for newer models 90's and newer. Older models you become a, serial number not bachelor, scroll down and select the model and a ship date chart similar to before appears.

I also found that if you have a 'flatgate' the gate isn't listed in the parts that is brought up.

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Ruger Serial Number Lookup

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Ruger now has in add-on to the series number tables available on their website, they have a serial number lookup available...

See here:

https://www.ruger.com/dataProcess/serialHistory/

Tin can't decide if this is better or non, probably is as it provides other very basic data but I just am non used to it so :roll:

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I like it, I had to manipulate it some. Shows my 1977 .41 mag BH as 2017-which is when I sent information technology in for repair. Does'nt list my '85 Unmarried half dozen-but I found my .41 every bit it should be on the old list. Shows my 2018 .xl/10mm equally non in production too as my .44spl FT from 2014. All my other guns are spot on. Doesn't seem to list the newer Bisley's equally such, shows them as Blackhawks- Dave

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I similar it, only I just looked up the recent 9mm/357 convertible I bought. Ruger says it is a 45 Colt /45 ACP quotient. I double checked to make sure I typed in the right series number too. Huh?

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It says . . .

"Enter your Ruger® serial number above to view its model number, production line, caliber, product condition, ship engagement and instruction manual ."

So I entered a six-digit serial number from 1 of my Old Models and it came back with a "tin't find that one" reply.

Then information technology occurred to me . . . it probably cannot search any number that does not have a prefix since that tells the system where to search. There are many serial numbers that, prior to the advent of the prefix system, were applied to several unlike guns of various models. Basically, it can only search the New Models.

I tried a couple of prefix numbers and information technology gave me nigh of the details mentioned, only providing a year for "ship date".

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From their site:

Not all serials numbers (particularly ones shipped earlier records were kept electronically) are available via this lookup. For older records, please select a product line beneath to view it's gauge beginning serial number shipped for the indicated year or contact Customer Service.

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hittman wrote:From their site:

Not all serials numbers (particularly ones shipped before records were kept electronically) are available via this lookup. For older records, delight select a product line below to view it's guess kickoff series number shipped for the indicated year or contact Client Service.

Yep, that'll take you to the non-prefix stuff as well as, for case, the early 2-digit prefix offerings like the xx, 30, 40, and l-prefix unmarried-actions.

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The shipping appointment is good to accept a s a base line but it tells you zilch for sure about the manufacturing engagement of the receiver or any of the parts. They could be widely different peculiarly in the early pre-90s era when large runs of parts were stock-piled and assembled in no particular time order.

Later, every bit the visitor got away from large inventories of parts and finished guns, the chances improved that parts were made and used soon before assembly and aircraft.

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wunbe wrote:The shipping date is expert to have a s a base line but it tells yous nothing for certain about the manufacturing appointment of the receiver or whatever of the parts. They could be widely dissimilar especially in the early pre-90s era when large runs of parts were stock-piled and assembled in no detail fourth dimension order.

Knowing the month too as the year certainly helps since the various "type" configurations of many of the Old Models are pretty well known and documented in Chet15'southward Red Eagle News Substitution Reference of Ruger Firearms. His series number breakouts are considerably more than precise than anything Ruger has put out, and his give-and-take of which parts were used when is further informative. He can, for example, occasionally come pretty close to revealing within a month's time when sure features/parts were changed in a run of a detail model. At that place will always be the occasional "late shipped" gun having bits and pieces that were released considerably afterwards the gun's serial number might point, or the occasional gun wearing some older bits from way earlier production that simply floated to the elevation of the "parts bin" at terminal associates. And of course in that location is ever the potential for the "screwdriver variations" arising from easily-swapped parts that muddied the gun'due south actual date of origin, either "early" or "late". In that location is no real style to sort these aberrations out, but in most cases they tin be identified as "suspicious" if that matters to someone. It really doesn't affair, since The Factory didn't record all the individual bits used on whatsoever particular gun anyhow, so there is no documentation for most of those with the possible exception of some particular grip frames or panels, and these but occasionally.

All this merely serves to keep us on our toes and remember that with Ruger, never say never.

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wunbe wrote:The aircraft date is good to have a s a base line but it tells you nothing for sure most the manufacturing date of the receiver or whatever of the parts. They could exist widely different particularly in the early pre-90s era when big runs of parts were stock-piled and assembled in no particular time order.

Later on, every bit the company got abroad from large inventories of parts and finished guns, the chances improved that parts were made and used before long before assembly and aircraft.

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Well,here is what I got when I entered a number.( Pitiful, we are unable to locate that serial number.) The Clayton book shows 1V in 1978 came in 22-250, 25-06, 7mm & 300 Mag. 1979 added the 220 Swift and eliminated the 7mm & 300.The number in question is a 1V in 220 Swift,which was supposedly released in 1979,serial in question,131-42xxx dates to 1978 !

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I'm glad Ruger is always trying something Innovative.

I did effort the SNL (Serial Number Lookup) on my v digit
Single Six Flatgate, made in Year 1956.

Unfortunately all I got was; "Sad, we are unable to
locate that serial number".

Gauge Ruger has some tweaking to exercise on that Programme.

Anyhow, Cheers Ruger for a Nifty Idea, if your reading.

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