Colt Sporter Ii Serial Number Lookup

[Bernice Ebesugawa]

Yesthat is a reasonable assumption. Your receiver was definitely serial numbered in 1942 per the polishing room records and your rifle is the commercial version which would very likely not have been assembled during the war.

The WACA dates post WWII are not entirely correct either since WACA has access to the polishing room records from WWII but the post-war polishing room records are privately owned and not available to researchers.

The WACA dates post WWII are not entirely correct either since WACA has access to the polishing room records from WWII but the post-war polishing room records are privately owned and not available to researchers.

I have no idea where you arrived at those numbers. Based on the estimated production numbers I used (for the post WW II) years) and provided in the DOM look-up tables here on the WACA website, the numbers are as follows;

Bert,

You may want to check the coding behind the date lookup table. Those numbers are based on the results of the dates provided by the WACA date lookup tool. The tool does not reflect what you just posted for 1945; actually, it skips 1945 entirely.

Because the CFM does not have most of the Model 75 records, I used the Madis numbers for the early years, and estimated the Post WW II production numbers. The table below is what I provided for the WACA website. The numbers shown in bold italics are from the Polishing Room records

I have a 75 Sporting rifle, serial number 88998 and the serial number was applied March 4, 1959. After the 75 was discontinued there were still at least 300 rifles (or receivers) that were serial numbered for another couple of years after the official discontinuation of the Model 75.

All this would be mute if Winchester, or Olin in this particular case, had the foresight to record , catalog and protect the history of each individual weapon as Colt did. It would be wonderful to be able to discover the when and who attached to our rifles and shotguns.

Vince said

All this would be mute if Winchester, or Olin in this particular case, had the foresight to record , catalog and protect the history of each individual weapon as Colt did. It would be wonderful to be able to discover the when and who attached to our rifles and shotguns.

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