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Questions About H&R 733 .32 S&W

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I recently inherited an H&R Model 733 .32 S&W, and I am very curious as to how old it is? Is there any way I can figure out when it was manufactured?
 
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With that model - the serial number alone is all that is needed. ....specifically just the letters at the beginning of the serial number.

All post-1940 H&R's were date stamped with a letter/letters which represent a specific year - all the way up until Remington took over.
 
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Yes. Remington(or their owner) bought Marlin, H&R, New England Firearms, and LC Smith back in 2007/2008.

Serial numbers A-Z, AA-AZ, BA-BC are from 1940 to 1986.

When H&R was reformed in 1987 they started a new series of serial numbers HA-HY for H&R, and NA-NY for NEF. HY/NY serial numbers are 01/2008 to 05/2008. After that the serial numbers start as CBA for a SB2 receiver and CAC for SB1 receivers - and you cannot determine year of production with the CBA/CAC serial numbers.

Note: H&R did skip some letters because of the close resemblance to numeric characters and other reasons. Some skipped = "O", "Q", "AI", "AK", "AO", "AQ", "AV"

Thanks for the advice! I researched the serial number and found out that it was manufactured in 1972. Its not necessarily valuable as far as money is concerned, but I appreciate it because it was my grandfather's.
1972 is a good year.... ;)

Yours should have a AJ at the beginning.
 
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