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SA, Inc. M1A serial number born on date database (000001 - 100000)

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Moderator, could we get this thread made as a sticky?

M14/M1A fans, let's put together a database of the dates M1A rifles were assembled at the factory. This information will go into the book M14 Rifle History and Development

Here are the requirements:

1) List the M1A serial number and the factory headspace tag date or the month and year SA, Inc. Customer Service says it was built.
2) You personally have to have read the serial number and date of the factory headspace tag or you personally corresponded with the Customer Service Department. No second-hand reports.

I'll start. These two serial numbers and assembly dates are from the factory headspace tags:

052122 - 11/13/89
134855 - 07/27/01

TIA,

Different
 
#30 ·
???

This may be a DA question already answered in here somewhere, but is there any way of establishing the build date of your rifle without the paperwork? Is is proofed somewhere tthat would give you an indication? Or is the whole intent of the data base to find enough guys with paperwork to help establish some SN ranges?...reason I ask is I have two M1A's...I have no paperwork with either, but the original owner told me that my 1229xx was built in Dec 99. I am not sure how he arrivced at that conclusion. That appears to fall into the data base window which is good. My new one is SN 0591xx which seems to put it into a July 1990 window. If I can help this out in any way I'd like to.

 
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Re: ???

This may be a DA question already answered in here somewhere, but is there any way of establisging the build date of your rifle without the paperwork? Is is proofed somewhere tthat would give you an indication? Or is the whole intent of the data base to find enough guys with paperwork to help establish some SN ranges?...reason I ask is I have two M1A's...I have no paperwork with either, but the original owner told me that my 1229xx was mbuilt in Dec 99. I am not sure how he arrivced at that conclusion. That appears to fall into the data base window which is good. My new one is SN 0591xx which seems to put it into a July 1990 window. If I can help this out in any way I'd like to.

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, send a very polite e-mail to sales@springfield-armory.com requesting the build or ship date for the M1A serial numbers you provide them. Lexi or Brandy will answer you by e-mail in short order. That is not a dumb question. :D
 
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#38 ·
Thanks to Bill Ricca's thread on The Firing Line Forun, I came across this thread. It's Sunday afternoon, so I can't contact SA right now, but looking at Different's 12/19/04 post, I can place my Standard M1A (s/n 0622xx) to the first half of 1991.
 
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#43 ·
Hey Different,
Here's the info for my rifles:

Std. M-1A: SN:078839, Headspaced to 1.632 by GF on 3/28/94, Purchased 4/17/94 at PX on Camp Lejuene.

IDF M-14: SN:IDF026, Headspaced to 1.632 by LES on 5/26/99,
Purchased 11/2000.

Serial #'s and headspace info straight off of factory supplied tags. Glad to be of help :)
 
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# 151600 01-03
 
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