Daryl,
My rifle is younger than yours,

It was sent to Argentina about 1996 (5187K) but I bought it almost unused 2 years ago.

You can send an email to: gloria@davidepedersoli.com
With your serial, she can tell you when they made it.

The also provide some info about the story of these rifles for an article I was writing:

"There is always a sinergy and cooperation between the Davide Pedersoli Company and our main Distributors.
We may be the first receiving inquiries of new products from the final customers, or it can be the distributor who already made the market research and have some figures for us to work on. If we decide to enter a new project, there is the historical research, the search for an original to study, often we succeed buying the original gun, then there is the evaluation about the difficulty to produce it and the tooling costs.
For our Kodiak double express the solicitation was made to us from Trails Guns Armoury, an American company which lasted since some years ago, until the owner passed away.
The original double express rifles date back to 1850 about. We do not have one original, but the American customer provided us with detailed documentation.
The Kodiak name was also chosen by the him, following an adventure/hunting book he read."

BTW: I preffer the checkering on your rifle to mine.
Very intersting.
Martin