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The reason is simple enough. Winchester stopped civilian production during WWII, but because of the way they recorded serial numbers, they didn't know the exact number that was the last made. When they resumed production, they jumped the numbers up to an even starting number that they knew would not duplicate a pre-war number.
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If that's the case, which is logical and was suggested in the reference, then the OP must have one of the very last guns made in 1942, no?
I'm pretty sure Truman got 15000000, but I don't know what year they presented it to him. It would be one gun before the first gun of 1949.