![]() However for a period of time in the middle of that range, they used an alloy with higher amounts of chromium in it, and steels with high chrome content tend to blue with a purplish hue. It no doubt offends the purists but the engineering is sound and the sintered steel receivers are just as strong and the tolerances are just as tight as a forged and milled receiver. They switched back to a regular milled forged steel receiver in 1978 when they introduced the XTR rifles. Something else to consider is that Winchester switched to using a sintered steel forging process (powdered steel forged in die under heat and pressure) from 1964 to 1977. The cut out for the AE feature can be seen on the bottom rifle. Winchester changed to the Angle Eject in 1982, so if it's an AE it's post 1982 and if it's not an AE then it's pre-1982. The simple solution is also to note if it's an angle eject or not. I am also not aware of Win ever re-using the old serials with a suffix - they just kept cruising on past 5.1 million in 1982 and got to around 6 million by 1991. 44 Mag beginning in the late 1960s, so a 1969 serial number is reasonable.
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