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I just purchased a NIB Colt SAA with a serial number SXXXXXA stamped in the bottom of the frame just ahead of the trigger guard assembly.  I went to the Colt web page to try to find the year of manufacture and it comes back as unable to find.  Just out of curiosity, I instead typed XXXXXSA and the web site found the year it was built.  The serial number on the gun IS stamped SXXXXXA NOT XXXXXSA.  I don't get it.  

Any Colt experts out there?

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1993 SA99879 - SA99999 "SA changed to "SxxxxxA".
S02001A - S07005A .38-40 introduced.
1994 S07006A Screwless frame introduced.
1995 S10123A
1996 S12560A
1997 S15886A
1998 S21569A
1999 S26457A Cylinders with removable bushing re-introduced.
FT00001 Colt Cowboy introduced.
2000 S29100A
2001 S31500A
2002 S33400A
2003 S34000A .38 special reintroduced (S34600A). 2nd Gen. removable bushing re-introduced.
2004 S34500A Late December Shipments of re-intrtoduced .32/20
2005 S38000A
2006 S41300A
2007 S42900A & S53000A (out of sequence due to two different vendors for frames)
2008 S48100A & S57300A (out of sequence continues)Etched Panel re-introduced on .44-40.
2009 S48300A & S57300A
2010 S49000A & S64000A (out of sequence continues)Nickel Plated .44-40 etched panel introduced)
2011 S48000A and S65000A (out of sequence con't.) 175th Anniversary SAA produced in 3 barrel lengths)

NF20000 (New Frontier production resumes)
2012 S66200A (7 1/2" 175th Anniversary SAA's production concludes)

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Thanks Cholla.  Those numbers are up to 2012.  Mine is aS87XXXA, and I suspect it was built after 2014, but I'll keep looking.  I think you pointed me in the right direction.  It's no big deal but I just like to have as much info as possible for my records.  Thanks again.

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46 minutes ago, Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 said:

Thanks Cholla.  Those numbers are up to 2012.  Mine is aS87XXXA, and I suspect it was built after 2014, but I'll keep looking.  I think you pointed me in the right direction.  It's no big deal but I just like to have as much info as possible for my records.  Thanks again.

The link I provided has more data for later years in it. Yours may be from 2018 or 2019.

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Colt's online serial number database has remained incomplete for the past 10-15 years or so it has existed. Half the time I get a result and half the time I don't. And then sometimes I get a result but it's clearly wrong. Just more of Colt's dysfunctional nature, I guess.

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