Old Mossberg .22 46B Help w Dating *VANITY*

[festus]

Paw-in-law has gotten ahold of an old Mossberg .22 rifle and wants to know how old it might be. I've been googlin and saw it was forsale in a 1938 catalog but don't know how long this rifle was produced.

Barrel is stamped :

O.F. MOSSBERG & SONS INC. NEW HAVEN, CONN. U.S.A NO. 46B 22 S-L-LR PATS. PDG

It also has a scope

MOSSBERG-NO. M4(b) 4 POWER-PAT. PEND.

Any idea how to find out how old this thing is ?

[nightdriver]

I have a Mossberg 146B that I bought in the mid '50s that looks a lot like the 46B, only that it has a 26" barrel. It means that the long tubular magazine can hold 30 shorts!

Otherwise, it looks the same. I got it to be used as a competive target rifle. It's a real tack-driver.

[xcamel]

Ditto - I cleaned mine up and lapped the barrel, and it shoots as good as my son's Anchutz 2000

[skinkinthegrass]

whilst the groomsmen held me from fleein

...its' a fine southern tradition. ...for the groomsmen. :^)

[Shooter 2.5]

Go to a decent book store and find a current copy of "The Blue Book of Gun Values".

If you're the seller, it's called patena. If you're the buyer, it's called rust.

[Squantos]

46B's..........them are kinda pointy ! Wear yer safety glasses !

[mtbopfuyn]

Thanks, didn't know there was a blue book for guns.