Chaz,
Your serial number is NOT out of range......your gun will have the raised sighting plane high rib and no signature line on the left barrel, only the right barrel. No mention of Hunter Arms anywhere on the gun.
The L.C. Smith records
specifically show that the L.C. Smith Gun Company (Subsidiary of the Marlin Firearms Company) made the following guns that were already serial numbered and ARE NOT prefixed with the usual "S" as are the other 58,000 or so guns they made....the records show the following:
December 21, 1945 to January 19, 1948
From serial number 202,968 to serial number 206,909
These guns HAD NO "S" PREFIX.....
Field: 1,176
Ideal: 121
Premier Skeet: - 0
Specialty: 32
Crown: 9
Skeet Special: 1
That is the problem with the so called L.C. Smith site, not very informative, in my honest opinion..........You would be much better off searching any L.C. Smith records data through the Cody Firearms Museum, where all the "original" records are kept.......
and they answer a live phone during business hours.....307-578-4031....or
http://www.bbhc.org/firearms/records.cfm click on research, then firearms.
Regards,
