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Old 11-21-2009, 12:00 AM
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Just sent off a deposit on this K-22.
S/N is K356787 and my rough guess is early 1959.
Should get it in about three weeks.
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Old 11-21-2009, 12:17 AM
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Well, one of the things I can tell you is that you're gonna love it. And I can also tell you that a bunch of people, in the mistaken belief that some day you won't love it, are going to hound you for right of first refusal when you decide to sell it. Actually, I'm one of them. Please let me know if you decide you really don't want it after you finally see it. (But I'm not holding my breath.)

Beyond that, the details. You are probably right about the DOB. With a four inch barrel and a ramp front sight, it is considered a K-22 Combat Masterpiece. It should be marked as a Model 18 inside the crane, because that's what the K-22 CM became known as when the company went to Model numbers in 1957. The six-inch barrel/Patridge sight version became the Model 17. Some people like the four inch K-22 better than the six-inch version. Some don't. They're all great guns.

Those could well be the original stocks on the gun. When you take possession, pull them and see if the same serial number (without the K) is on the inside right panel. If it is, great! If some other number is there, that just means that you have one of the tens of thousands of '40s and '50s K-frames that ended up with some other gun's stocks in the last 60-plus years.

That's a really handsome piece. Congratulations.
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Beautiful gun, you will enjoy it. And, it slides neatly under the 50 year "not unsafe" exemption for CA.

When you and the other three remaining gun collectors in southern California decide to leave, I can give you some firsthand advice about other places to live
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Now you need to get a 6 inch K-22 to go with the 4 inch.
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Old 11-21-2009, 12:37 AM
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Gee, That looks just like mine, maybe a year younger. Certainly one of my favorites. If I have my way, it will never be for sale. Is yours in fact marked as a Model 18?
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Beautiful gun, you will enjoy it. And, it slides neatly under the 50 year "not unsafe" exemption for CA.

When you and the other three remaining gun collectors in southern California decide to leave, I can give you some firsthand advice about other places to live
C&R is one reason I picked this one.

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Now you need to get a 6 inch K-22 to go with the 4 inch.
Well, I guess I will have to put together the Bekeart properly to have a 6 incher.

DCWilson, I would like to go shooting with you and our 22's at an indoor range if you are up to it.
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Old 11-21-2009, 01:33 AM
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Beautiful specimen! I'm totally envious. Congratulations and enjoy.

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Congratulations because I'm green with envy as that's a beautiful revolver.
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Old 11-22-2009, 09:44 AM
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Very, very nice! I know you will enjoy it. As someone else already said, now you need a 6" to go with it. Then a 8 3/8, then a K 38...welcome to the asylum!
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looks like a sweetheart
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Just picked it up, looks good overall.
I will have to adjust the trigger stop and have already mounted
Fuzzy Farant grips. BTW the stock grips do not letter to the gun
and if someone has a square butt K frame s/n 593972 then I have
their grips. I will post more pics later.
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