Broblem dating my Sheridan Bluestreak

[IRV]

I'm bought it brand new at Montgomery Wards in 1975 or 76. I have checked every inch of the gun and I can't find a serial#. I know for a fact I did not buy it before 1972. The only numbers I can find are on the side of the breach and only 4 digits. Any help at all would be wonderful.

[TooJung2Die]

According to this chart from the Crosman site they began serial numbers in 1972. 4691 would put the year of manufacture right at 1972. It probably sat on the shelf for a while before you bought it.

[bgmcgee]

Personally I think your gun is older than '72. I've got a '73 blue streak and it has the serial numbers just in front of where it says "bluestreak" on the tube. It might have sat at monkey wards a  few years before you bought it.

[IRV]

Thanks guys, the more I search the worse it gets. According to this post in another thread it's a 1964 except mine doesn't have the letter code for month of production. I guess I was 2yrs old when I bought it.

[TooJung2Die]

Thanks guys, the more I search the worse it gets. According to this post in another thread it's a 1964 except mine doesn't have the letter code for month of production. I guess I was 2yrs old when I bought it.

That does seem to complicate the question for you. Thanks for posting the chart. I never saw any pre-1972 numbering information before now.

[DD789]

I'm bought it brand new at Montgomery Wards in 1975 or 76. I have checked every inch of the gun and I can't find a serial#. I know for a fact I did not buy it before 1972. The only numbers I can find are on the side of the breach and only 4 digits. Any help at all would be wonderful.

 From what I can tell from your pictures I would say your gun was mfg. in 1964. your rear sight has two screws holding it on it should have two dimples with one set screw. here is what was given to me about my Silver Streak.
Until 1956, the rear sight was soldered with the first year knurled windage adustments
1960 5 M/M Cal & Made in USA added to pump tube
1961 saw evolution of the bolt from straight to curved to pear shaped with hole (eventually removed 1975)
1963 with a switch from the hold down safety to the rocker safety
1964 changed the front sight to a forward ramp style.
1964 Inspection dates were stamped on left side of receiver (Backwards and alphabetically)
1968 removed grooves from the receiver
1972 Serial numbers instituted


Here are some known facts as they pertain to your rifle:

Straight bolt handle -  Earliest C models up to 1961 when bolt handles became curved : 1949 -1960
Rear Sight -  sight held by small allen-head screw opposing two dimples on opposite side : 1956 - 1971 (earlier models featured permanently soldered rear sights with knurled windage knobs)
Automatic Safety - Pre 1963 when rocker was introduced. 1949-1962
Narrow Trigger Guard  - 1959 and earlier  (can't see it in your pic but there should be philips screws holding the trigger guard instead of rivets)
Stock and Forearm -  If 4 screws were used in place of roll pins on the forearm, then it indicates one of first two years of that model - along with thin "almost crude" stock and thin cylindrical forearm 1949-1951. Roll pins indicate 3rd year production onward.- 1952 on
Partridge-style front sight with vertical rear face - Incorporated 2-3 years after introduction of the C model : 1951-1964
Simple Markings -  the words "5mm Cal" and "Made in USA" on opposite side introduced in 1960.  Absent those inscriptions 1949-1959
High Comb Stock - 1949-1958  Lowered in 1959

I'd say the best guess given the info on hand is it's between a 1956 - 1958 model (Based on rear sight and high comb).

Tim
VPilot

If I'm not mistaken it was like this;
CB was all the rockers, thumbers etc.
CB9 was early transitional packed in lead.
CB9PA was late transitional. Slip in valve. Both transitionals used the same trigger, bolt and hammer package with [push pull safty
CB9A is what they have now but that has ghone from Walnut to Sycamore?. Slip in valve and Safety on the gaurd.
Silver streaks drop the B fro model designation.
To confuse the actions were never marked with the B as that designated balck and when the markings were stamped the Guns could still be a black or chromed gun. Just like an E or H pistol is stamped before it was chromed or painted/blacked and only chrome guns are actually E/H's and all else is EB/HB cause it is painted or blacked somehow.
C/E/H means silver.
Now you know TOO MUCH!

[avator]

That is amazing. According to those numbers, the gun was absolutely made in 1964. Very hard to fathom a retailer having an airgun warehoused/shelved for 11+ years. Someone really screwed up on the FIFO. (First In First Out)

[IRV]

I'm now convinced it's a 1964 model, just wandering why it doesn't have the letter code for month.
It is the first year they stamped inspection dates on the left side of receiver so maybe the letter code wasn't introduced yet.
I'm thinking the gun got lost in Ward's stock room
or
Someone bought it in 64 didn't touch it for 11+ yrs returned it to Wards and I bought it.
Doesn't matter either way now I know if I need parts it a 64

Is there any other pics I can take that will help date it?

[wjjones]

Can someone help me, too?  One of my Blue Streaks is a bit newer; its serial number is 494877.  However, using the list above I'm still a bit confused about the age of my gun.  Was it made in the late 80's...or in April of '94?

[DD789]

Can someone help me, too?  One of my Blue Streaks is a bit newer; its serial number is 494877.  However, using the list above I'm still a bit confused about the age of my gun.  Was it made in the late 80's...or in April of '94?

It would be nice if Crosman could up date the serial numbers now that the Streaks are no longer manufactured.

[avator]

Can someone help me, too?  One of my Blue Streaks is a bit newer; its serial number is 494877.  However, using the list above I'm still a bit confused about the age of my gun.  Was it made in the late 80's...or in April of '94?

According to the chart.. it would be April of 1994

[wjjones]

OK, I did a bit more searching and found that Sheridan manufacturing was moved to East Bloomfield, New York in 1992.  My gun was built in Racine, Wis., so it would have been made before 1992.

It's not such a big deal, and I guess I'm satisfied to know it was made between 1985 and 1991 and probably in the late 1980s.

Thanks.

[Amd6547]

"Broblem"...problem with a Bro.