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Old 12-12-2011, 07:06 PM
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Default 22/32 Heavy frame target .22

Hello
A couple days ago I looked at a 22/32 with serial number 295042. The chambers are not recessed. Finish is about 90%, maybe a bit better.
What I wondered about was the stocks. They do not have any pencil numbers on the inside of the right panel. Moreover, they looked to me like stocks from a .32 Regulation Police. They even had the June 5, 1917 patent date stamped on the bottom. The grip frame had the stepped shoulder on it, like an RP. I believe that is normal on a Heavy Target, but I'm not sure.
The SCSW does not address this issue at all. The only information on the .22 HT is all about the Bekeart Model which, as I understand it, had a very different set of stocks. The only examples of a .22 HT I've personally seen or handled had the Bekeart style stocks.
The question is whether the .22 HT was ever shipped with the RP style stock, or were these likely added as replacement stocks to this gun somewhere along the line?
Any help you I frame guys can give me on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
JP
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