Tracking year of manufacture

[MrTom]

I have a couple older CVA rifles that are factory guns. Is there a way to find the year of manufacture thru the serial numbers?

 

[phalanx]

I think its the last 2 numbers

 

[MrTom]

Thank you.

 

[phalanx]

It appears to be more complicated than I remember. Here is a thread on the High Road about it.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/cva-mfg-date.501353/ Newer models are the last two digits, 80's they say were the first 2 digits.

John

 

[middlejohn]

It appears to be more complicated than I remember. Here is a thread on the High Road about it.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/cva-mfg-date.501353/Newer models are the last two digits, 80's they say were the first 2 digits.

John

I'm a bit confused.........

My Spanish factory made, 2 screw patchbox gun has a serial number of "90 72xx54"

Do I assume the 90 before the rest of the serial is the date?
I thought 2 screw guns were newer? Is 90 considered newer? And the 90 is first in the serial, like the older guns?

 

[phalanx]

After reading that thread on the high road, i am just as confused as you.

 

[Jon Foster]

Sorry to bump another old thread but I was given an old CVA rifle at least 32 or 33 years ago by a coworker of my wife... When he gave it to me, he said it was his grandfathers rifle and hadn't been used in many years. I still haven't shot it but I did spend a fair amount of time trying to track down a rough estimate of it's age. I still have no clue.

Jon.

 

[toytruck]

Have you tried contacting CVA and asking them?

 

[Jon Foster]

Have you tried contacting CVA and asking them?

I was in contact with them more than once with no good results. But I haven't tried again in recent years. The closest thing I've come up with was the date code being the first two numbers of the serial number for older models and the last two numbers being the date code for later models. The rifle I was gifted only has a five digit serial number. The serial number on my first kit rifle from the 70's is 78 followed by a space and six numbers.

Jon.

 

[deermanok]

Seeing that CVA has been around over 50 years, there's a lot of ground to cover.
You should send me the gun to examine, test fire and examine some more.
I could get it back to you within a year or two.