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March 14, 2013 - 12:57 pm

Â Â Â Â I have a dw 715 s/n S/00xxxx. Does anyone know what the / means ? It is 357 mag.

Â All the other 715 I have seen are either SDxxxxx or 357Sxxxx. Could it be an early 715?

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March 14, 2013 - 7:22 pm

I don't know what the the S/ is for in the Serial Number either. I always assumed the S/ was for stainless. For what it's worth, my Monson 714 SN# (S/004XXX) is set up that way too. Maybe one of our more knowledgeable members can explain it.

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March 14, 2013 - 9:46 pm

My Monson 715 has the same numbering convention. Don't know what it means.

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March 17, 2013 - 11:17 am

The "S" does stand for stainless.

When they first introduced stainless guns around 1983, the first ones were numbered in the conventional blued gun style, like this.

I assume that almost immediately someone noticed that this s/n style would be hard to track exactly how many stainless guns were produced. So the stainless guns got an "S/" ahead of the s/n.

This style remained for a while, until they deleted the slash & started using two letters ahead of the s/n. "S" still means stainless, and "D" means .357 Mag. These same letters were used on 714 & 715 models.

Toward the end of the Monson era & into the Palmer years, they changed again. This time the caliber is shown first, then an "S" or "B" (stainless or blued), then the s/n.

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