How do you figure out the year?

[woodman]

Is there a simpler way to figure out what year a Sako was made? Lets take the first L579 group for example. According to the serial number chart the range was from 10091 to 118961. I subtract the 10091 to come up with 108870 and I assume thats how many were made so I divide this by 13 years and come up with a probable average of some 8374 made per year, so I just keep adding this number to 10091 to come up with a year. Am I crazy or is this how you guys do it????

 

[woodman]

So with my theory I'm thinking that a L579 with serial number 29xxx was made inn 1963. How did I do?

 

[woodman]

Hellooooooo Sala,

There are 3 people on line and I know you are one of them.

 

[Anonymous]

Woodman,
I'm not always in the room and my computer can't walk. I'll be back after a dentist appoint for which i am leaving for now now. I login and keep the site in my system tray when I'm in the room so I don't know if it always shows me online or not. Apparently so.
Ref. your post above, I don't think any f us go the the extremes of some kind of formula because you never know by serial number. Did you look in the Hang Tag data base? You can usually find something close to what you have numerically and narrow it down from there.
Back this afternoon,
S-A

 

[woodman]

I did check the hang tag area and it does not list any L579's

 

[misako50]

Woodman- Go to the bottom of the page and pick out a cartridge (.243-.308 etc.) The dates are caliber sensitive-The L579s are in there-Misako

 

[woodman]

"I see says the blind man" thanks misako I never noticed that until you pointed it out. I think it was made in 1963.

 

[misako50]

I think you are correct-Misako

 

[bloorooster]

Yep , '63 would be my guess, Woody you did the same mathematical equation I used to figure out my first L579, but with this being said, we must also figure in what Misako said, the receiver and what ever cal. barrel could have been put together at any given time during routine production. This is why we all come here to find info on the anomilies. An action could have been serial stamped on a certain day, but that receiver may have sat in a bin in the Sako plant for a very long time before it was barreled , stocked and shipped...Nothing is set in stone with a Sako built rifle, they wasted nothing, except the barrels that did not perform to their standards and tolerances.-Bloo

 

[misako50]

How was work today,Bloo? Hope you didn't weld your thumbs together.

-Misako

 

[bloorooster]

Hey misako, work was good, nice to be on the time clock again, but I was really jonesing for some Sako time!-Bloo