yup, the numbr on the right side I think front of the trigger guard is the year of birth. I just did smoke pulls today.There was what I thought was flash rust but turns out it's shallow pitting, took a little longer to rid it. Tracing and some designing soon.
your beautiful children have the skills now to survive, hunt, skin, buthcher,and ornamentally make money,........thats pretty dang good these days,congrats to you and the babies. paps