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Posted: 4/19/2015 5:21:07 PM EDT
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I'm guessing a 1954-57 by the serial number.
ETA: Browning's attempt at documentation isn't much help with your pistol. It is a piece of history for sure. |
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Posted: 4/23/2015 1:27:52 PM EDT
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Probably mid-50s-ish? The internal extractor and "thumbprint" in the slide went away in the very early 1960s.
If you haven't been told yet, be careful shooting that...internal extractors are few and far between for those models, and when you do find spares they are expensive. Like c-note expensive. |
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Posted: 4/24/2015 11:49:03 AM EDT
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FWIW, I don't know that OP will revisit this thread as he received the answers to his questions elsewhere the day he posted. For those not privy to the result...and interested
FN production/assembly methods being what they were, 28180 was most likely produced in 1951...certainly no later than 1952 and certainly no earlier than 1951  .....
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