Further to my post of May 28, 2009 I stumbled over this thread again today and went back and looked in my loading book again. Found I had made an error.

In Dec. 1992 I already had almost 1300 rounds through my Custom Super Grade. It follows that I must have purchased it in Dec., 1991. Don't know what I did with the records for the first 1300 rounds. When making my original post I just looked at the date and not at the number of rounds fired.

My 4 digit serial number is correct. Possibly it is so low because the rifle came through the Custom shop.

Jim