Thank you! I don't receive the pistol until Wed. but I'll take more and better pics at that time. I'm torn whether I should keep it or move it along.The 44 Russian butt-frame is almost identical to the K frame round-butt frame. The only difference is that the front toe on the 44 is square, but rounded on the Model 1899. The factory made very few target stocks for the Models 1899 & 1902, but yours could be factory, since there were at least two styles made. Yours could have been a third????
Your stocks have the concave top rounds, fine early K frame checkering, with diamonds, but without the two screw design of other stocks. The K frame target stocks I have seen were a very similar shape, and some had a extension on the upper rear of the stocks. There were at least two sets of these early target stocks. First are as a prior post by Mike Priwer with checkering pattern like the NM3, with the rear extension. Second, was checkering as Mike's show, but without rear extension, but I have no pictures of those. Late 44 DAs were sold overlapping with early K frames in those early years and could have seen more patterns. If you have not done so, maybe get a letter??
Up here, they sell like hotcakes!! Our looney-left "Liberal" government has been waging a concerted war against firearms owners by more and more restrictive legislation. They've just announced a new round of banned firearms. None of their new laws impact the criminal element at all but that doesn't seem to matter to them whatsoever. *UPDATE*! The gent who sold me the pistol was kind enough to order the new sear from Jack First and ship it to me. After some fiddlin' and cussin', I found the push off was a combination of wear on both the sear and hammer notch. I carefully reprofiled the hammer notch, replaced the original sear, and now it works like a charm. The pistol is in phenomenal condtition for its age.
