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His serial number isn't a direct hit, but the majority of the 8380XX numbers on the list are USMC rifles. Here's the closest:
838019 020630USMC - NICARAGUA (BAD BBL)
838019 032530USMC - NICARAGUA (SURVEYED)
838054 011031USATC - CO I 15TH INF
838055 042231USMC - SAN DIEGO
Last edited by champ0608; 02-12-2021 at 04:38 PM.
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02-12-2021 04:36 PM
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From the lot code the bolt is 1940, according to vishooter
http://www.vishooter.net/slc8_2008.html
correction, the data on that site comes from John Beard
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Originally Posted by
champ0608
His serial number isn't a direct hit
Apparently if it's not a direct match then it means nothing, you can't infer that it probably was. There's just no match.
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Apparently if it's not a direct match then it means nothing, you can't infer that it probably was. There's just no match.
Actually, if you've studied the patterns and blocks in the lists, you can infer quite a lot from them. The list bears this out repeatedly. Of course, nothing is stated as fact. I can not say for fact this rifle was in USMC hands. But being in a serial number range dense with USMC issued rifles, and showing several USMC rebuild traits, its quite easy to say this rifle was probably a USMC rifle.
And at the end of the day, none of that really matters much, except to those of us that were Marines and love Marine collectibles.
Regardless of which branch this rifle served in, it served its nation well, and remains a nice example.
...but it was probably a Marine.
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Originally Posted by
champ0608
I can not say for fact this rifle was in USMC hands.
That was what was meant. It wasn't me that came up with that either. I used to infer as well until told by people far more knowledgeable than I about the lists that if it's not a hit, it's not a hit. Now I just tell them that with no conjecture.
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