pigeon watch/sporting clays/shotgun world and so on, all say correct and it says mine was 1989 and the man that stocked it at diamond gunsmith services confimed that in a phone call.Miroku Corporation ( 株式会社ミロク, Kabushiki Kaisha Miroku) ( OSE: 7983) is a Japanese firearms manufacturer located in Nankoku, Kōchi Prefecture. That date code is available all over the net. my previous gun was a DT10 whose serial number started with AF which your list would say was made in 1980 and not 2001, which is when it was actually made There Is no letters beside them but thank you anyway!Īs for this list that you copied from the internet. Miroku is browning is italian but made in japan under the miroku name, there will be 2 letters next to the proof marks, check them against that list and it will give you the year of manufacture But there Is No Number Or Letter On It Apart From An M Infront Of The Serial Number! Thanks For That But I Taught Miroku Were Japenese? I Could Be Wrong About That Though. The letter O is missed out because of a possible confusion with zero, while Q also leads to confusion when stamped very small. The reason is that the Italian language does not use the full alphabet – J,K,W,X and Y are not used in Italian words. You may wonder why the letter sequence is not logical. Here's the list - and apologies for a rather long post: Italian guns are easily dated by a code - not in the serial numbers but next to the proof mark.

Old miroku shotgun models