Picked up a rather good one.of these last weekend from one of the good guys on here and comparing it with another a question arose.
Clearly all the guns of this type are dated 1980. However, in line with M&Gs policy up until recent times they have the specific month of manufacture for the individual gun stamped near the little safety indicator cut.out on the rear end of the cylinder.
Of the two guns that have been.through my hands number 0166 has a manufacture date of 09 80, whereas 1555 has a date 12 80?
Whereas I had assumed M&G might spread manufacture through the year alongside other models, it would, possibly could appear that production was towards the autumn/winter of that year.
As these models had a total production run of 2000 are there any other members here that have a jubilee 45 that can.input their guns production date here just for curiosity?
Another thought came to mind in that aside.of the.inscribed breech block and inlaid stock the guns are based around a standard 45 action and it could be that these parts were simply stock piled until that time in the year for a mass assembly!!
Any thoughts? Perhaps even from those who don't have the above model gun but could comment on M&Gs likely production idea here?
Cheers
Dave