1975 Citori Fixed Choke Barrel Numbers...Mean?

Many Skeet and Trap clubs - have bore gagues - that you can borrow / or ask one of the members to give you a hand and take some measurements.

It just takes a few minutes.
 
Here's a pic of the numbers as stamped on the barrel.....ok, nevermind. I keep getting an "upload failed message" ANy thoughts on what's going on there? I've uploaded before (other sites) with no problems...

All of the serial numbers match on the gun...from the fore stock, barrel, butt to the barrel. Still looking for some historical knowledge of the use of numbers and their corresponding meaning. I think the top is a modified, and the bottom is an improved....but it might be the top is a full and the bottom modified. What it is doesn't actually matter, the pattern does and I understand that. Just looking for the history of it as I find it fascinating. I've had this gun for years and shoot it well...never knew that it was a 1975 until this week when I decided to run the serial number. Got me interested in the numbers on the barrel and that history after I read the history on brownings website (which doesn't designate this numbering system...although I might email browning) and read up on some internet sites that have other info on the older citori's.

THanks for all the interest and input!!!!
 
"Still looking for some historical knowledge of the use of numbers and their corresponding meaning."

Me too. I've been around guns for 50+ years and on line for 10 or 12 and all I've never run across a numbered Browning system. I love a good detective story.

JT
 
On second thought, I decided that the numbers must be a carryover to the early Citoris from a (the?) system used by Miroku on the Miroku-marked guns or the guns they made for Charles Daly before FN and Miroku bought out Browning in '77 iirc.

Anyway, I was wrong. According to Wisner's, Miroku used a *- system similar to Browning's.

www.wisnersinc.com/additional_info/Mirokusprings.html

Nuts.
 
Maybe they are aftermarket barrels by a firm who uses a different system?

I have known a few folks who have had Simmons and Baker make barrels for guns before.......?????????
 
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