With so many K-22s around here , lets have a gallery like the Ultimate Highway Patrolman thread. Show your guns and tell their tales.

My pre-war K-22/40 #684893.



Found it locally with Pachmayrs and the front sight coated in red nail polish. Finally found what look to be the correct grips.

K-22 shipped in January 1935 with test target.

Bill

Here's mine, #K248xxx from about 1956. Paid $400 as was marked M&P 22 when owner of LGS was on vacation. Box matches gun, but sight and grips probably not original. Shoots great. Sorry about small pics, can't get the other method to work.

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Combat Masterpiece

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Purchased 1958 as new. Owned by me the last 4 years.

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these are very nice. pictures need a help. have boxes for both as well

same gun's just different sight screw variation

this is the earliest K perfix k22 i have K6787

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I don't post pics much, but I really like the K-22's. Here's my contribution to this thread.

Don

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Here is a 1948 single line address gun. This was the first S&W I bought when I started collecting them and stepped onto that slippery slope. The gun came with the matching box and SAT. I have another 1948 gun with the 4 line address. The gun in the photos is interesting in that it is bright polished and the box marked as such. Most of the K-22's of this era were the brushed blue.

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John. SWCA #1586

Mine is actually a 17 no dash, but it is pre-1961. I figure it's from 1960. Serial number is K418XXX. It's in really nice condition (at least 98%). Bought it about 3 years ago. All original.

My photo doesn't do it justice.
It's a 1948 model that went to Germany with a military officer in the 1950s,where it received the engraving and lots of silver wire.I replaced the custom thumbrest target grips made at the same time,with pre-war service grips,to reveal the full extent of the engraving.

Unlike most threads around here, I can actually contribute to this one!

The 22 Masterpiece on the left letters as having shipped to Abercrombie & Fitch in December, 1947. One line address, small ejector rod knob.

The 22 Combat Masterpiece on the right is from 1951 or so, and it's in my safe due to the generosity of a forum member. Don't worry, it gets shot and carried some. I'm not sure if the target hammer is original, but it's got the best trigger pull of any revolver I own.

Best I can do.

No apology needed there Iggy, I would be proud to own that one.

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John. SWCA #1586

A shooter-grade, 4-digit serial #, one line address gun shipped in 1947 per SCSW. It has some freckling, so I bought it "right." I shot it some yesterday, and am about to shoot it some more today. Hands down the sweetest shooting revolver I have ever owned.

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I owned this 98% gun from the early 50s for a year or so, but I didn't want to shoot it. I sold it to a member here and later bought the shooter-grade gun in the above post.

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1931 OD - First year gun shipped NOv 1931 with orig box.
1947 3 digit - Shipped the same month I was, March 1947.
1948 LNIB
17-1 hard to find variation - target hammer, bright blue, stags

K22 OD First Yr



K22 K956 Birth month/yr gun



1948 LNIB



K22 17-1 hard to find variation




Charlie

1948 Serial # K24367 came with the box

My only old one , box is rough but all #'s match. She adds character to all the newer 17's. Bob

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Some fine revolvers here, absolutely fine. I'll show a few that I like ...

Two prewar ODs, 634373 from 1931 and 646390 from 1934. The box is not original to either of these guns, but is appropriate for the earliest deliveries before the red picture box was made standard.






Three postwar Masterpieces from 1947 (large knob!), 1948 and 1953: K4267, K14784 and K196446. My avatar up there beside my name is a detail shot of K14784.








And my best K-22 package, a first-year 22 CM K115589 (1951), which came with everything except the literature.



I consider all of these to be shooters, but I haven't yet had a couple of them to the range. The 22 CM is the most accurate .22 I have. It produces tighter groups than I would have thought possible for someone of my late-developed skills (if "skills" is not too elevated a word to use for my performance).

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Prewar Adjustable Sights in detail.... First Model low left, Second Model high right.



The guns in profile... Second Model (K-22/40) on top...



A couple of other good ones...



I am the first retail owner of these guns... the 6" is still in factory grease...



A few other "roughies"....



My 17-No Dash (Seller's Photo)



Part of the bunch that lives here piled on the floor...



And last, but not least, is K117. (Photos courtesy of my friend Mr. Michael Stern)

Here is my 3 digit k22 #439. Got about 700 into it with the box and screw driver. I have since replaced the grips shows with period correct magnas.

Great thread, great guns!!!

Bought the Masterpiece from a local dealer. It was marked "Model 17". Its serial #, K 1757XX, places it very early 1953.. maybe the first day of production???
Traded a LNIB 4" 28-2 for the Combat Masterpiece (also 1953). The Target grips look like they belong on the 6", but they were with the gun so they stay. K 1877XX

1) K22 ODM S/N 649663 . 1937 I believe waiting on letter .
2) K22 ODM S/N 6386XX . 1934 I believe waiting on letter .
3) K22 pre 17 S/N K42158 . 1948 I believe aint going to letter 'er she's a shooter .

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a pre-18 Combat Masterpiece, k1352XX, an outstanding shooter!

Just an old rusty shooter that cleaned up pretty good. My favorite kind, by the way...

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A bright blue 4-screw in an old box.



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Nice Bobby! How's that Pistol Pocket fit?

My only Smith 22 is a 17-2. I can't for the life of me remember where I got it. I didn't even know I had it, but I was checking my safe back in KY while I was home on leave and found it in it's box. I know it's mine, but I don't know when or how I got it! I know I haven't shot it either. Next time I'm home, I'm taking it out on the back porch for some play time.

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A pic of my 1953 pre 18, with a few of my other toys.

I found this gun in the rafters of a basement when I was helping my dad's friend set up for an estate sale. I reached in and saw a gold box, picked it up, and it was heavy. the revolver was wrapped in parachute silk and had a box of remington 22L with it. Dad's friend sold it to My dad, I wasn't old enough to own a gun, and I bought it from dad about a year and a half ago. Easily the most accurate guns I've ever fired, and the story means that it will never leave.

This Outdoorsman has been in my family since new (around 1936). Box, tools, documents fuggadaboutit. Life time of shooting fun and thousand of rounds downrange, you bet:

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Many K and N Frames

Fits perfect my friend! That was a great Christmas present. Thanks again. I decided to keep this old junker in it. Whatcha think?




Only problem is,now I gotta find another one!



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Here are my 2 pre-61 K-22's;

1931



1953

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Maybe I oughta just put this one in it.





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Nice stuff Bobby!

These are all I have so far.

I don't know much about it and it's the only one I have. Just thought it is a pretty nice presentation case.



Leon

I agree. A lot of thought and detail work went into that one.
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Here's a few short barrels. Damn,I must have the palsy!



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You cracked me up!! Nice guns.

PS - You need to send some of your "extra" leather my way. It looks like it is taking over. I promise to treat it well.

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Miss Buddies crsides & fat tom

I got started a little late in life on this K-22 Quest, nothing amazing yet but I'm proud of them anyway. I mainly love to shoot them, wonderful little pistols...I forgot how much fun shooting a .22 can be. One is a '48, the other is a '53

1931

smith17 - Very, very nice!! Is the box original to the gun? Do you know when and where it shipped?

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2/2/32 with Fitz grips.

and without.

removed PC

This is a 17 no-dash.



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And a Model 53.



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Here's a nice .38 M&P Target Model and K-22 Outdoorsman shipped 11 years apart


And a one line, large knob early K-22 Masterpiece with vintage leather

Hello
Here are some noteable Mentions with some very different design changes.



A First series K-22 Outdoorsman that shipped in September of 1936 shown with it's box & Original Serial numbered service stocks








Here is a November 1947 K-22. This one is a Transitional K-22 due to it's Larger Mushroom shaped extractor knob of Pre-War style S&W had to Mill out the under side of the Post-War barrel to allow the Extractor Knob end to clear the barrel portion when the cylinder was closed. S&W was not a company to waste parts if they could be used that is why we see these Rather Scarse Trasitional models like this one shown with added on Target stocks, it's box, Tools and Paperwork. I have the original serial numbered Magnas it came out of the factory with stored away.










A Pre-17. This one had a very short production span as a Four Screw variation being non Model stamped. In Late 1955 they dropped the upper side plate screw, and in 1957 they started stamping all guns with a model number as the K-22 was given the model number 17, leaving This Variation a very short window of production falling in between Early to Early 1957 time span being less than A year shown with it's original Box, Tools, Paperwork, and Magna serial numbered stock's as well as it's original sales reciept from 1956 as it was shipped and sold through a huge S&W stocking whole sale dealer being the Shapleigh Hardware company of St. Louis MO.












Here is the K-22 Magnum. This is a First year Model 48 that shipped in December 1959 being the first year as well for the new Exciting Winchester .22 W.M.R. Cartridge. It is a Four screw variation in Bright blue shown with It's Factory fitted Optional .22 L.R. Cylinder along side it. S&W Offered these with both cylinder's for awhile at a small additional cost to the buyer, but they are no longer made up or offered this way.

Why Pre-61...why not "Pre-3-screw guns"? What's wrong with this '61 4-screw? 8 3/8" was special ordered with Rosewood targets, RR, WO, Full Target, shipped May 18th, 1961 and delivered to Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Chicago, IL.



Early first year Model 48, full target, RR/WO, Rosewood Targets



I'll get some others up soon.

This one is from October of 1947,same as me.



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