Determine the age of a used Leupold scope

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   You can determine when it was made by the serial number located on the center saddle section.  Beginning in 1974, Leupold began letter coding riflescope serial numbers. All scopes produced during that year had the letter E as a prefix to the serial number. The next year the letter code was advanced to F, and so on through the alphabet. The letters I,O, and Q, were skipped so that they wouldn't be confused with numbers. When they reached Z in 1992 they started over at the beginning of the alphabet with letter A. This time they used a suffix. 

Prefix
E - 1974
F - 1975
G - 1976
H - 1977
J - 1978
K - 1979
L - 1980
M - 1981
N - 1982
P - 1983
R - 1984
S - 1985
T - 1986
U - 1987
V - 1988
W -1989
X - 1990
Y - 1991
Z - 1992

Suffix
1993 - A
1994 - B
1995 - C
1996 - D
1997 - E
1998 - F
1999 - G
2000 - H
2001 - J
2002 - K
2003 - L
2004 - M

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Chris Farris Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List TEAM SWFA - Admin swfa.com Joined: October/01/2003 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 5701	Quote Reply Topic: Determine the age of a used Leupold scope Posted: July/16/2004 at 19:55
	You can determine when it was made by the serial number located on the center saddle section. Beginning in 1974, Leupold began letter coding riflescope serial numbers. All scopes produced during that year had the letter E as a prefix to the serial number. The next year the letter code was advanced to F, and so on through the alphabet. The letters I,O, and Q, were skipped so that they wouldn't be confused with numbers. When they reached Z in 1992 they started over at the beginning of the alphabet with letter A. This time they used a suffix. Prefix E - 1974 F - 1975 G - 1976 H - 1977 J - 1978 K - 1979 L - 1980 M - 1981 N - 1982 P - 1983 R - 1984 S - 1985 T - 1986 U - 1987 V - 1988 W -1989 X - 1990 Y - 1991 Z - 1992 Suffix 1993 - A 1994 - B 1995 - C 1996 - D 1997 - E 1998 - F 1999 - G 2000 - H 2001 - J 2002 - K 2003 - L 2004 - M