Anyone else look at Serial Numbers?

[OKCShooter]

I don't know why, but when I see a firearm (almost regardless of what it is), I look at the serial number to see if it is significant to me (A birthday or Anniversary, etc)

It's bad enough that I saw a Noveske lower once (that I didn't need/want) and bought it because it was Serialed: C 1890, which to me looked like Circa 1890 (the Founding of OU)

I had a Seecamp .380 special ordered with my initials and birth year (Mainly to pass down to my Son)

Anyone else have a weird fascination with SNs?

 

[348]

Not me. Never even crossed my mind.

 

[BadgeBunny]

I always check the serial number ... Unless it's a gun from one of the "old guys" here ... But not for the reasons you are describing ...

 

[TwoForFlinching]

I always check the serial number ... Unless it's a gun from one of the "old guys" here ... But not for the reasons you are describing ...

+1... I may or may not run said numbers through a few different quick websites also. lol

 

[BadgeBunny]

+1... I may or may not run said numbers through a few different quick websites also. lol

Yeah ... that's right ... I run them through a "website" ...

 

[SPDguns]

I was at a gun show and a guy handed me a 1911 and said "whaddya gimme fer this?" I looked for the serial number, it had been ground off.....

 

[Glocktogo]

Some numbers are just cool. They don't enhance the monetary value, but make for an interesting conversation piece. This is my separately purchased "matched set". Jarheads will recognize the number as the MOS for a Marine Infantry Rifleman.

 

[AKguy1985]

Yes, I do. I had a delton lower that had my initials and birth year in it.

 

[RKM]

I remember back in the 80's seeing a Walther PPK that had in the serial number the numbers 007007. The guy wanted a fortune for it.

 

[Perplexed]

I look at the S/N's on M1 Garands in the forlorn hope that I'll find a really cool one, such as the last digit repeated at least three times. I saw one once that ran something like 3XX4444, but the owner had the same idea and wasn't selling it.