It can't be a T Series, it has a Type 73 bushing, which puts it out of the serial number range. After doing some thinking, it might not even be what I thought it was. The Hi-Powers that FN make for Browning always have different rollmarks, so there's always 2 sets of commercial Hi-Powers, the Brownings that are more prominent in America and the FNs that are more prominent in Europe. That being said, it's possible that this rollmark was adopted by FN for the European pistols sometime after the T and C Series ones, which I've seen and do look different. With that theory in place, it could be a 1985 (the serial number prefix for this example was 245PV indicating 1985 as the manufacture date, I would have shown you if this had progressed) FN produced gun, but around this time, FEG was making illegal copies of the FNs and even stamping the same particular rollmark on the gun. The serial number prefixes were usually single letters like "B" with the serial number following (similar to the T Series) so you could immediately tell if you had a fake FEG. The real question is, was the rollmark ever actually used by FN, or did FEG copy the serial number system too? I assumed it was an illegal copy and thought I'd stump you all, and I did, but I stumped myself while doing it. No one can guess what the gun is because I don't even know exactly what the example is, as it's more representative and theoretical than anything. Anyhow, we all learned something from that and since Nyles was closest to either of the answers, he can take a turn.
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03-30-2010, 10:26 PM
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