It was made in 1965
Your Browning challenger with the suffix of U6 to the serial number indicates that it was made in the year 1966.The Browning Challenger was available from 1959-1974.
Your Browning challenger was made in the year 1968,with the serial number that you supplied.
The U74 suffix to your serial number indicates that your Browning challenger was made in the year 1974.This also revels that you have a Challenger I because the Browning challenger II was not made until 1975.You should have Plastic wraparound grips which were only made on the challenger I in 1974.The challenger I was produced from 1962-1974.The challenger II was made from 1975-1982.I hope this helps?
@ 49 years ago
This would be a Browning Challenger .22 pistol made in 1970.
1974
Yes, once you look it up at Browning.com
Browning.com has a sn function under customer service. Go to "Dating your firearm" on their site. Your Browning Challenger was made in 1966. You can go to Browning as suggested above to look all this up, but SN's were followed by a U denoting Challenger Pistol and a single digit from '62 to '68, then a two digit year was listed from 69 to 75, when they then started the Challenger II and III series. Those were denoted by the prefix 655 and a two letter code denoting the year. You have to go to the Browning site to look those up.
You are correct in your assumption that the U2 prefix to your serial number indicates that your Browning challenger was made in 1962,The U letter indicates the model challenger,while the Nomad was identified with the letter P,and the Medalist was with the letter T.all followed by the last number of the year during the time span of 1959-1968.From 1969-1974 Browning used a two number identifier.example-challenger made in 1973 would be U73.
your browning was made in 1976.
Your browning was made in 1976.
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