Calling 454 Casull Rossi owners- seriel number runs

[mickbr]

Hi fellas, trying to work out general age or at least 'newest to oldest' for 454 Casull rossis based on their seriel numbers. Also if they numbers indicate whether they were the later improved versions, or the first production runs. I heard updates were made to the guns around 2005 according to a post Nate Kiowa made, and they were screwing the mag tubes in and maybe the buttplates changed as well?

Below are three guns seriel numbers I know of persoinally. All were bought pre-owned so we dont know exact vintage.

All appear to have the knurled knob on the magazine which unscrews to allow direct to mag tube loading and the heavy utalitarian rubber butt plate with the 'cross hatched' rubber between, which I assume is factory fitted. I wouldnt expect people to post their numbers but if you bought a new 454 rossi at some point and were interested in indicating where your number fits and the year, Id be interested to see if the numbers at least run numerically for age.

MA018657
MA018669
MA030452

I checked my other Rossis- two recenty bought new 44 mags but the numbers dont correllate at all, starting with NVH and NXB prefixes. Could be the MA series is for all Rossi's of an earlier vintage..

[hfcable]

i have had several . the 454 rossi i have now has serial number 5GN020140

not sure when i got that one.

[mickbr]

Thanks for the info. Not a very stirring response from the other 454 owners. Usually someone mentions 454 and we are all over the thread like white on rice.