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[Roger Payne]

If the rifle is a BSA Shirley dated 1944 & it has no letter prefix, just a five digit number starting with a '3', it will be from the first production run of 1944, so from the beginning of the year. The second run had an 'A' prefix, the third run a 'B' & so on. Unfortunately it is not possible to date them more precisely than this, but as I mentioned earlier, by the end of the year 1944, they were on to P & R prefix rifle serials, so one can get a rough idea.

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[GeeRam]

If the rifle is a BSA Shirley dated 1944 & it has no letter prefix, just a five digit number starting with a '3', it will be from the first production run of 1944, so from the beginning of the year. The second run had an 'A' prefix, the third run a 'B' & so on. Unfortunately it is not possible to date them more precisely than this, but as I mentioned earlier, by the end of the year 1944, they were on to P & R prefix rifle serials, so one can get a rough idea.

The various factories producing the K98k in Germany and Czechoslovakia before and during WW2, did the same thing, but they applied a suffix letter (or double letter) to each block of 9999 rifles built.

[EnfieldC]

From your description it does appear to be from the first batch from 1944 as there is not a letter prefix. Out of curiosity does anyone know the turn around time between being manufactured at BSA and being completed and delivered from H and H? I wish there was a way to tell where these things were sent. Thank you for all the info