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January 13, 2014
7:55 am

win728

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The Cody Records office offers additional research for a per hour fee.
Beyond the serial number and warehouse ledgers what other doucuments
would they have available for additional information on a particular gun?
Do you have any experiance or knowledge regarding this service.
As always thanks for sharing your knowledge.

January 13, 2014
9:48 am

Bert H.

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With very rare exception, there are no other documents that are available to research. The one exception that I am aware of is the Model 21 Shotgun.

In most cases, the extended research consists of trying to determine how many guns were shipped on a specific order number, or how many with a certain feature were made in a given serial number range, etc., In nearly all cases, the information comes from the warehouse ledger records.

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January 13, 2014
4:25 pm

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Bert I haven't herd you mention your regular trip to Cody to help
out in the records department when is your next visit planned?

January 13, 2014
8:03 pm

Bert H.

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quantrez said
Bert I haven't herd you mention your regular trip to Cody to help
out in the records department when is your next visit planned?

I pair it up with my trip out to the annual Cody WACA show. This past trip, I spent all of my available free time conducting my own research projects. I have not logged any significant time in the research office during the past two trips to Cody. I did spend a few hours down in the vault with Jesi this past July, looking at the Model 1885 ledger records.

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