If it has a serial # the best I can do is 1968 or later. Since the pictures are not back yet, I will explain to the best of my ability.

Apr 27, 2018 - 0 Comments. Savage 99 Serial Numbers Date Of Manufacture. Jul 10, 2009 - These codes read the same as the date code, but were followed.

The Savage/Stevens date code is a very small oval, usually on the underside of the receiver on doubles. Inside that oval is a very small number and letter. The letter is the year of manufacture. A=1949, B=1950 etc. 'O' and 'Q' were not used because of similarity to a zero.

All the other marks you see are there to make sure pieces that may have been separated inside the factory find each other again. So a large 'A' by itself inside a circle in not the date code. If the serial # starts with an 'A' that is not the date code. Thanks I think that is quite helpful. The gun I have is a Stevens 311, series H, 410 gauge, with a serial number that begins wiht the letter D.

It is in aobut 99% original finish. I was concerned that it might be fairly old and changing the stock would reduce the value. It has a hard wood stock and forearm with impressed checkering, that although in 99% condition, is really ugly and I would like to replace it with a nice walnut stock and forearm. Does anyone have a better idea of the date of manufacture or want to comment on changing the stock? I'm just finishing a new straight grip stock, which was never on Stevens 311s, but there isn't much if any change in value.

I've seen a couple re-stocked Stevens with the straight stock go pretty fast on GB at a good price. The one I got has very good grain for $50, $33 for the forend from. They are pre-cut, but you have to do the final fitting. I enjoyed it. _________________ over the hill and picking up speed. Sherhoi yoshiki bacha baroi duhtar navisht. 'I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people.to disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.'

Founding father George Mason. I have a Stevens 311 Series H. I found the forend to be shaky and finally took it apart to see the problem. Turns out this forend is broken in half and needs replacing. After having looked for roughly two weeks online for a replacement part, there are none to be had. If anybody happens to read this.is it possible that there isn't a small place in rural America that I'm not looking? Anybody happen to have any places or names that I can get in touch with to find this replacement part?

Series H Forend Iron. Broken more toward the tang than the shoe. If anybody could help me here, I would be grateful. Thanks for your time if you've read this far.

This was some good information that I found from Gun Digest: 1. Stevens used plain numbers from their first double in 1878 until 1913. Letter prefixes crept in on the serial numbers used on both hammer and hammerless doubles from 1913 to 1939. They always signified a change in mechanical design or manufacturing process which resulted in an interesting variant. From 1940 to 1948 no serial numbers were used on doubles, only capital letters, usually in groups of three or four, the letter(s) sometimes enclosed in a circle, along with an inspector’s symbol ( a heart, a diamond, a spade or some such ‘shape’, on the bottom of the frame behind the hinge pin. From 1948 to 1968 the letter symbols under the frame were changed to a ‘Capital letter with a one or two digit number’ in a 1/4″ circle. Hindi saral 2 font styles for black.

This was a date code which you will find illustrated in the Savage-Stevens-Fox pages of your Standard Catalog of Firearms. From October 1968 to March 1988 Savage/Stevens/Fox B doubles are serial numbered in a completely new serial number range beginning at A000001. The six digit (always) numbers, stamped only on the left side of the frame, not on the barrels or fore end or on the wood, are preceded by capital letters from A to E. The letters do not correlate to production years. The letter prefix accompanied the Savage/Stevens/FoxB/Springfield serial number on every gun they made from 1968 on. Beginning about 1978 numbers 1 to 20 were also stamped on the three major components, frame,barrels and fore end iron, to enable the factory to keep 20 guns of like model together in a group for packing in the standard 20 gun shipping carton.