2800's are the overlap period for Beavertail lug introduction and phasing out of Bread and Butter Lugs, this was mid 1963. A drum with your number would be 1964.

Ploughman, thanks for the feedback and, I'm not trying to second guess you on this, but I just found some old pictures of me and my kit with the dyna-sonic snare. The date stamp on the Kodacolor Print is October 1963. That being the case, how can my dyna-sonic be a 1964 model?

Radial pro man's snare sound hot. Thanks for bringing it my shop , sorry i was not much help on acurate dating on that snare. If any one here has a peavy radial pro 1000 snare give bob a shout he's a good man to deal with and he's ready to buy.

RadialProMan:

With a photo of you playing your Dynasonic in Oct 1963, it sounds like you answered your own question. Ploughman was absolutely correct in that your serial number is later than the 1963 B&B/Beavertail transition, but it's possible an assembler at Rogers grabbed your 3000 series badge a bit earlier than 1964. Rogers serial numbers were never intended to be sequentially consecutive indicators of when a drum was assembled, or which "batch" the drum came from (as is the case in other manufacturing industries). Many drum manufacturers simply started using serial numbers so we, the customers, could record and identify our instruments.

Mike C.