![]() Upon introduction in 1959m all rifles were produced by FN in Belgium. There were three grades Safari, Medallion, and Olympian. I have an older.243 on their website but the serial number decoder goes by model and. If you go to the website below you will find pix and a story about serial #1. Side note: The Medallion and Olympian Grades all had the year code prefix in 1961 as 1 X and you couldn't tell the model you had, Medallion or Olympian, by the serial number because both had X as the prefix. Serial number L 11557 is the last serial number I show for 1961 made Safari Grades (so far). Until sometime between your number L 11420 and serial number 2 L 11856 (.308 small ring). ![]() Browning had not yet went to the year code with the Safari i.e. Hello, Your Safari Grade was actually made in late 1961.
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