| Huvius |
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| 13/10/13 07:43 AM |
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Re: Forming cases for 6.5x53R
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According to Kirton Gibbs used the letter prefixes of his serial numbers this way:
A = completely made by us,
B = barrelled action by another, stocked, sighted and finished by us
C = complete gun bought in from another maker
Hmmmm...
Not sure I would go with this entirely.
My 256 Gibbs Farquharson - obviously entirely made by Gibbs and rebarreled later by Gibbs - has a 'B' prefix on the barrel.
My Gibbs Mauser (.280 Ross) has a 'B' prefix number on the barrel and action.
My Gibbs Mauser (318) has a 'B' prefix number on the barrel but not the action. Same with the Steyr I had - 'B' on the barrel but not the action.
I surmise that the 'B' prefix denotes the changing of the barrel (maybe sighting, swivels etc.), not neccessarily that BOTH the barrel and action are from outside of Gibbs.