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Old 10-12-2016, 05:58 PM
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Old 10-12-2016, 06:59 PM
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That is a very nice piece, and I'll wager it shoots as good as it looks.
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You may already know its age, but if you don't, I have SN 5256xx on my list as shipping in 6/31. Grips on yours are period-correct. A great-lookin Kit Gun. Recessed chambers on yours indicate it's a little younger, as I don't think they were used until sometime in the mid-30s.

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Thanks for the comments. I believe this gun was made in 1936. Sending in everything to find out.


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Welcome to the forum.

That's a beauty! If you own it, don't ever sell it, shoot and enjoy it. If you can buy it, do!

The 4" Kit Guns were not officially introduced until 1935 and those all have recessed chambers in the cyl.

That KG #529652 has a very low serial number and lives in a range where specimens letter either as a
.22/32 Kit Gun or as a .22/32 Heavy Frame target with a special order four-inch barrel. It's as though the company
hadn't yet decided what to call the model by the time it began shipping them. 529453 letters as
a special order HFT; 529488 letters as a Kit Gun. All four-inch prewar .22/32s with serial numbers
above 529500 seem to have shipped as KGs.

From the location of the serial number being on the forestrap, I would guess that the company expected
to build this one with 2 screw extension target stocks, then decided to issue it with small round butt stocks if the stocks are numbered to the gun,
and with a four-inch barrel.

Regardless of what the shipping invoice calls it, I would consider it a true Kit Gun because of the recessed chambers.
It has the USRA front sight, which was not used on six-inch 22/32 target revolvers but was one of the options on the four-inch Kit Guns.

Serial # 529438 on front grip strap with factory 2 screw target stocks and gold bead on the Patridge front sight blade.



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You may already know its age, but if you don't, I have SN 5256xx on my
list as shipping in 6/31. Grips on yours are period-correct. A great-lookin Kit Gun. Recessed chambers on yours indicate it's a little younger, as I don't think they were used until sometime in the mid-30s.
• The .22/32 Target models were changed to recessed chambers in 1935 reportedly at ~ # 525600, by change order dated Jan 7,1935 on the next soft fitting order. They have been reported as low as # 384570 (1923) but those are believed to have been retrofitted cylinders.

Four inch 22/32 targets that have cylinders with recessed chambers are reported as early as 1931. Several HFTs are known to have been retrofitted with recessed cylinders and 4" barrels.

If you got the shipping date from a letter, is it referred to as a 4" HFT or as a Kit Gun?
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