The serial number is XR7028. This rifle has a 23 3/8'barrel. Mismatched numbers throughout, except scope mts. Which are both numbered 1655. Receiver marked on left rail 'ZBROJOVKA BRNO Z.24'. Receiver ring marked on left side with serial number Front scope mt. Is dovetailed into receiver ring & held with set screw. The serial number can be found under the folding lever and on the underside at the chamber end of the rifle barrel. The manufacturer's logo and manufacturer's name Zbrojovka Brno can be found on the right side of the chamber end of the shotgun barrel and on the underside of the locking frame. Guy brought me a rifle that I would like to identify. The action is stamped brojovka,Brno a.s. The barrel looks to be after market stamped BMP 20T. Any help greatly appreciated. It is chambered in.308.
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Other websites that may help (Information from websites other than the manufacturer website should be examined with some skepticism):
- High Standard Pistols Serial Ranges 1932-1942
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(containing serial information about: Baker DB Shotguns, Crass DB Shotguns, Lewis DB Shotguns, Manier DB Shotguns, Flues SB and DB Shotguns, NID DB Shotguns, Knick SB Trap Guns, LeFever Nitro Special DB Shotguns, LeFever 'A' Grade, Western Long Range DB Shotguns, Model 37 Standard Model Shotguns, Model 37 Solid Rib Shotguns, Model 37 All Grade Guns. - Lancaster, Charles (London) 1826-1901
- Lefever Sideloack Shotguns 1913 & Later (not serial numbers)
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- Mossberg did not put serial numbers on most long guns until 1968 (GCA 1968 required them)
- Remington - Navy Single Shot Pistols, Model 8, 81, 24, 241, RB Pistols (Types- not serial), RB Rifles- 1870, 71, RB Rifle Models- 1866-1933, Contract Lee Rifles, Pistols and Revolvers 1857-1918 (incomplete serial number for some), Rifles 1866-1933 (ditto), Shotguns 1874-1910 Serial numbers unknown.
- Smith & Wesson - Single Action Pistols, First Model .22, Second Model .22, New Departure Safety Hammerless, Ladysmith 1902-1911+
- Springfield Model 1873 and 1884 Rifles, Model 1873 Shotgun, Model 1903 Rifle, 1903A3 by Smith Corona Co.
- Stevens (description, illustration and years made)- Stevens did not put serial numbers on all long guns until 1968 (GCA 1968 Required them)
Brno Rifle Serial Numbers
Zbrojovka Brno a.s. was founded from the original Austro-Hungarian artillery workshops as the Czechoslovak state-owned firearms factory in 1918. From the repairs of railway cars and military rifles, the company gradually switched over to the production of the components of telegraph and telephone equipment, equipment for railway garages, and tools. The assembly of Austrian Mannlicher rifles was replaced by the production of German Mauser rifles and later the production of rifles 24 according to the company’s own design. In the years 1924 - 1925, the buildings for the production of rifles, machine guns, and cars and for the needs of an engineering shop and a tool shop were built. Also the civil production was expanded, including cars, bicycles, industrial scales, slicing machines, aircraft engines, machine tools, and special tools. Zbrojovka Brno became a model for perfectly organised companies with a modern and precise serial production; the company introduced its own original tolerance system for own production and the use of measuring instruments, due to which it became one of the pioneers of the standardisation in Czechoslovakia. In the second half of the twenties, Zbrojovka Brno became one of the largest producers of rifles in the world.
In the thirties, the company started the production of standard and portable typewriters under the Remington licence. In the years 1934 - 1938, Zbrojovka became a world-renowned holding. Zbrojovka Brno expanded its influence also by purchasing the shares and gained thus capital interests in enterprises with similar production not only in Bohemia and Moravia but also in Slovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia. During its boom, Zbrojovka Brno had more than seventy facilities and operations. In the forties, the production of tractors, motorcycle engines, and hunting and sporting firearms was introduced. At the beginning of the seventies, a new building of the tool shop was built. In the eighties, Zbrojovka Brno produced office, communication, and computer equipment, diesel engines for Zetor tractors, and special and general utility tools. The hunting and sporting firearms formed only a smaller part of the volume of production.
In the nineties, a radical structural change was accompanied by the termination of the operations within the unpromising lines of production and the reduction of the number of staff. Zbrojovka Brno has been transformed into a joint stock company with a strong concentration of owners.