We need more info to give you an answer. What caliber is your rifle? Is it a model L, M, S, or another model? Add that info, and any other distinguishing features, to your question and I'm sure somebody here can help you. After episode 102 I started having a bit of a look at these. This is a useful forum page which sets out some information about deciphering the serial numbers an.

Does anyone know what serial numbering convention was used by the A/H Army when they completed a full cycle through the alphabet, 1A through 9999Z, and had to start all over again in the same production year? Assuming that rifles were marked in some way to indicate this, what was that marking convention? Ncomputing Vspace For Windows 7_server_6 6 9 1 Zip. I've noticed punch marks to the right of the numbers on some rifles, and recently noticed that when such a punch mark appears on a receiver, it is also carried over to its barrel and stock.

Might this be the second-cycle-through-the-alphabet indicator? Regards,John Last edited by John Wall; at 08:12 AM. The AH practices of Serialing, both at Steyr and Budapest, generally followed the Germanic system of 4 digits plus a suffix (capital) letter. These series were re-started each Fiscal or Calendar year.

(uncertain which). Observations of a large range of Rifles and 'shorties' over the years has shown that in the pre-WW I years, they rarely used up all the letters in a Year ( assuming an average of 250,000 using the standard alphabet, not the special Germanic one.) The Low pre-war production could explain the wide-ranging pressing of Foreign Contract rifles from Factory stocks into AH service, as well as the re-issue of captured rifles. IN WW I, they did get up into the R, S,T and U blocks, but the W,X,Y,and Z suffixes were only used in late 1918 thru to 1921, on assemblies made to fill out Police and Reparations orders ( to Italy and Czechoslovakia); I have seen a couple of 'W' suffixed 1917 acceptances, but none of the X,Y & Z until 1918-1921. I have several Czech accepted 'Wn 20' and 'Wn21' Stutzens. Hacking Software Ultimate Md5 Decrypter. It seems that these last four Letters were used from 4 Nov. 1918 (Armistice) till all the requirements were completed.(1921).

Serial number obfuscated. Catalog Page. 20 inch round. Modern Long Gun. See Condition. Hooded ramp and raised adjustable notch sights and equipped with a Mannlicher. Serial number obfuscated. Catalog Page. 20 inch round. Modern Long Gun. See Condition. This rifle features a ramp blade front and express style notch rear sights. Proof and import marks.

Some of the War Reparations committees had 'overblown ' Ideas of what the Central Powers actually had in store of complete weapons, and so the Factories were allowed to keep working to 'make up the numbers' (which in the German case, the new-made items were then 'destroyed' (Mostly for the Photocameras). Until someone finds Austrian Archival material relating to Serialing practice, all this is supposition based on actual examples. As to the 'Dots' after the serial number: a form of 'FTR' or FR indication. The rifle has been 'shopped' for some more-than-normal repair work, probably at a District depot, etc; AZF( the main Artillery Service repair centre in outer Vienna) did stamps of their own on Foreign Rifle Modifications during WW I; But I have not heard of an AZF stamp on any M95s or earlier model (even with rear sight mods etc).

Could the dots also/otherwise indicate a down grading of the rifle from 1st class (general Issue) to 'II Klasse' ( Reserve, Training, sold-out-of-service status)??? Export M88 and M88/90 were marked II (italics) after the serial (on Chilean models).

( THis is a precis of an earlier Long Post this morning, which 'Disappeared' Just as I was signing it.old Computer at home). Back to the serial problem: I suggest a Serial Survey of AH M95 rifles along the lines of My Turk Number Survey (Parallax Board), listing Model (Rifle, Kar, Stutzen, etc); Wn or Bp date; and Serial Letter ( digits not required, although I do know that the Austrians did use two and three digits (have samples) as well as Four digits. But I have not seen a Single digit plus letter example.Definitely they didn't use Digits WITHOUT letters on the M95s, either Steyr or Budapest.( here they differ from the Germans, who used a 'No letter first block, then 'a' represented '1' and so on, as a virtual 'fifth digit') And the S rifles can be included, as they form the Bulk of existing M95s today (sorry, M95/30); Hungarians can be specified as well, but the 'H' 31M conversions have New serial Numbers, and the old ones removed or lined out.might be handy for earlier reference. Regards, Doc AV AV Ballistics. Semper Fi, Sean Check out the newest forum on Gunboards! The Brass Exchange. Where reloaders can come and find the brass that they need.