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What year was my. 25 caliber pistol made?
Its a raven arms mp-25 made in industry cal serial number 1221975
8 Answers
- Lime Green MedicLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
There is really no way to tell anymore. Raven Arms was one of the "Ring of Fire" inexpensive firearms along with Jennings, Bryco, Sundance Industries, et al at or around the southern Los Angeles area, including, as you noted, the City of Industry.
Their records are long gone. Because their pistols were on the cheap side, they sold thousands upon thousands of them, so there's really no way to tell when serial numbers would be for certain years without those records.
So in a nutshell, I can say "Sometime between 1970 and 1991"
Because those are the years in which the MP-25 was made. The Raven Arms factory burned down in 1991, so it could not have been made by Raven after that.
- Anonymous7 years ago
The MP-25 model (predecessed by the P-25) was made from 1984-1991. As far as your serial number, I'm not sure. I believe you can narrow it down depending on what kind of safety the gun has. The so called "old model" has a small safety that moves horizontally, while the "new model" has a safety that moves vertically and blocks the slide from chambering a round. I have a "new model" with serial # 1783XXX so I assume that mine was made closer to '91 than '84. After the raven factory burned down in '91, Phoenix Arms produced the gun as the Model Raven until '93. All Phoenix Arms Model Raven's serial numbers are in the 3 million range.
- AndyLv 78 years ago
I don't know of a source for Raven serial numbers unless you could contact the company(not sure they're even still in business). A better question would be how much you could sell it for. You know for sure they're junk when a kid like Camoduck(who actually knows nothing about guns) thinks they're great,oops I mean grate.. He also thinks the Remington 770 is the great. The fact he can't even spell the word great should be a clue to what his level of intelligence is. The .25 has got to be one of the worst calibers ever produced.
- 5 years ago
I have had a raven .25 since the mid 80s, it's not the most accurate thing in the world but it's never jammed. It's never stove piped or double fed. I have an eight hundred dollar .45 that can't boast that record. I mean I've maybe only shot it 200 times but it's never messed up. Junk, one man's junk is another man's treasure. I don't see any body volunteering to let me shoot at them to tell me if it hurts or not. It's not my first choice for personal protection, but it's better than throwing rocks.
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