Traditions

[arcticap]

When this nickeled Traditions Deerhunter was purchased at the company store, I was told that it was a "gunwriters sample" that was sent to a magazine writer for evaluation and then returned to Traditions. It was essentially just like a new rifle with a very nice trigger for an economy gun except "loaned out & fired". Could this rifle have been given a trigger job knowing that it was going to be sent out for "independent" evaluation? :hmm:
Since buying the rifle I've noticed that there appears to be an extra letter added to the factory serial number in the form of the letter "S". I suppose the "S" stands for "sample".
Just thought that folks might like to see what it is that I'm referring to, maybe some day someone else will run across a sample rifle with the "S" serial number too, and now won't have to wonder what the "S" is all about. :winking:
The "S" doesn't appear to have the same texture as the rest of the factory applied letters either, but appears to be hand stamped rather than engraved with little dots, but who would really notice anyway? :grin:

 

[Keppy]

The stamping on that rifle looks to me, not to be uniform in many diffrent ways. Looks like punch marks for stamping the name. Just my opinion. Not a very clean stamp but I haven't looked at a tradition lately either.

 

[vito1994]

Atricap,

I have two Traditions rifles, neither of which has that type of peened lettering, both of mine are machine stamped. The "S" stands for "Second", which is either a return or what you have a sample. In the factory store you will see both first runs and seconds in the displays. The two rifles I purchased are not stamped with "S" and I paid as close to full retail you can get. You need to look for the "S" stamping. I beleive that "S"'s are not fully warrantied but I could be wrong about that.

 

[arcticap]

Thanks, I looked at the end flap on the box and in handwriting it says "gunwriter's sample", and then it's hand stamped SECOND in red ink.
I was told that it had a full factory warranty, and sometimes the "seconds" are due to cosmetic stock scratches, tool marks etc....
But this particular rifle shoots great!

 

[Runner]

The trigger on my Flinter is very good also. Cock the lock to full. Push side to side on the top of the hammer. Some of them would release when this happened if the trigger was set too fine.