I guess that’s pretty cool for people who own them. The first 200 rifles have their own special serial numbers which I believe make them even rarer to own. There was no 1000 pre-production run, but as stated before it was in Marlins original plans to only run 1000. Marlin originally had plans on only selling 1000, but had great feedback from the sales force that sales would be a big hit, so they extended production to higher numbers. The new revised serial # never started at 60DL0000, it started at 60DL0201. This change was made at the 201th receiver. I had to drop the X out of the serial number to make room for the 4 numeric digits for a total of 8 digits. Since they wanted to now exceed 1000 rifles, there was not enough room for 9 digits. At the 200 mark I noticed on the engineering spec sheet the serial number “was supposed to be 60DL0001” not 60DLX001. When I programmed the laser software, I was informed we were only going to make 500-1000 of these rifles and took it for granted that the serial # started with 60DLX. The first 200 rifles only have 3 numeric digits as follows, 60DLX000 thru 200 as compared to 60DL0201 thru 9999. I was the manufacturing engineer on this project and this rifle was my responsibility to get it into production.īy error the first 200 rifles have a special serial number due to an oops/mistake in the serial # setting in the laser engraving machine. I knew this was going to be a topic/discussion someday, so here is an explanation of what happened at Marlin with the serial numbers. Here is some information & trivia I thought you might find interesting and useful.
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