What is your K frame Grail Gun?

Brian41 · Aug 2, 2014

P&R Model 19 2 1/2 inch in blue. I've wanted one since my uncle-in-law who was border patrol in the 70s showed me the one he carried while working under cover back then.
I've since bought a 66 in that length and a nickel 19 but still waiting for a nice blued one in 2 1/2.
I know it's not that rare of a gun but still waiting for the right one to show up locally.

4-Screw · Aug 2, 2014

05CarbonDRZ said:
Nickel pre model 19 Combat Magnum.

Here ya go...

Nickel Pre-19 with Rosewood grips....I think this is a Dec. 1956 gun....I forgot.

flundertaker · Aug 2, 2014

Model 66 CSP stamped blued stainless to give my dad while he is still around.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk

OldDominion · Aug 2, 2014

SaxonPig said:
"Grail" means something you want badly but will never have so mine would be a Model 45 M&P in 22 Long Rifle with a 4" barrel. I know they can be found but no way I can bring myself to pay the asking price.

That's mine too SP, but just to make it more interesting (impossible?) one that shipped in 1952.

KEN L · Aug 2, 2014

snake803 said:
Never thought I'd find a birth year Smith..(1/15/1944)..Lo and behold...Gunbroker came through... this year... a victory with a letter .. Shipped 1/10/1944... I guess I'll stop looking for a birth year gun... Ya think????
JIM.................

Now ya gotta find a birth DAY gun!

Good hunting!!

Triathloncoach · Aug 2, 2014

Nothing exotic, not even sure if this is truly a k frame, it's as big and heavy as my 686.

But this is my still NIB 617

Qball · Aug 2, 2014

I'm surprised that only one 53 is on the combined list

Guess they are more unusual on this side of the pond.

When i first heared of it in the -70's i wanted one.
Any barrel length or finish would do just fine for me.

When one finaly appered for sale here in Sweden, i was out of cash.

And the seller was not interested in trades. (even more

)

It will be on my "want' s so bad" list for ever, and to think of it
i have never even shot one of them.
Not even the .22RemingtonJet Contender a friend at my gunclub had

I even traded of my reloading kit for the .22RJ

RKmesa · Aug 2, 2014

Green Frog said:
Easy... a K-32 with narrow rib made in 1949 to go with my K-22 and K-38 of the same era and be from my birth year. I don't know for sure whether that would also make it a LERK, but I'd be happy with it either way.

My March 1949 K-32 (recently acquired to finish off the narrow rib Masterpiece set) is not a LERK. Keep looking - they are out there, but you have to be prepared to "pay and pounce" very quickly.

Triathloncoach · Aug 2, 2014

RKmesa said:
My March 1949 K-32 (recently acquired to finish off the narrow rib Masterpiece set) is not a LERK. Keep looking - they are out there, but you have to be prepared to "pay and pounce" very quickly.

Good Golly Tomally. Wow.

Modified · Aug 2, 2014

4-Screw said:
Here ya go...

Nickel Pre-19 with Rosewood grips....I think this is a Dec. 1956 gun....I forgot.

I'm still sort of a nickel bigot, I can't bring myself to appreciate it as I know many of you guys do, but...

Those stocks are outrageous, and they make that a real beauty.

kimporter · Aug 2, 2014

my dads 19-3,sn k947018

pennlineman · Aug 2, 2014

Combat Masterpiece.

Mike McLellan · Aug 2, 2014

The K-32 (of any era) is sought after by so many collectors, I honestly wrenched my collecting interests in a different direction that don't include that fine, rare gun. My interests center around the earliest of the K frames. My favorite pastime is examining and comparing the similarities and subtle differences of the 1902 & 1905 models.
If you're not too picky, they're plentiful, cheap, and fun to shoot. Grail? I guess I've already found it.

Modified · Aug 2, 2014

Mike McLellan said:
The K-32 (of any era) is sought after by so many collectors, I honestly wrenched my collecting interests in a different direction that don't include that fine, rare gun. My interests center around the earliest of the K frames. My favorite pastime is examining and comparing the similarities and subtle differences of the 1902 & 1905 models.
If you're not too picky, they're plentiful, cheap, and fun to shoot. Grail? I guess I've already found it.

I figure a grail is unobtainable, so the only guns I consider a grail are those that I would love to own, but very likely never will.

Looking for them is useful however because you find great stuff you weren't looking for in the process.

For example, I was offered serial # 54 (coinidentially made in 1854) today, not sure exactly how I will find the money, but I am going to make it happen.

I have long desired such a gun, but I knew it would happen, so it was never a grail.

LSWC · Aug 2, 2014

SixgunStrumpet has the right idea. Make mine a King Super Target K22 with a cockeyed hammer. Will watch for one in Tulsa this November.

Modified · Aug 2, 2014

LSWC said:
SixgunStrumpet has the right idea. Make mine a King Super Target K22 with a cockeyed hammer. Will watch for one in Tulsa this November.

Heck of a good gun to look for.

I guess you could say a cockeyed K22/40 hammer is on my list of grail parts. Thats the only "problem" with mine aside from some finish wear. They did everything except the hammer.

RKmesa · Aug 2, 2014

LSWC said:
SixgunStrumpet has the right idea. Make mine a King Super Target K22 with a cockeyed hammer. Will watch for one in Tulsa this November.

That was on my list for a long, long time, but gratefully it was one that I got to scratch off the list

True grail now is its 38/44 larger O/D brother configured the same way...

RobertJ. · Aug 2, 2014

Ever since I saw one when I was a kid, the blued, 2.5" Model 19 has struck me as the perfect combat handgun. I finally was at the right place at the right time, with the right amount of cash six years ago, and picked up a nice -5 version.

As far as a true "grail gun", for me it would be any K frame owned by Ed McGivern.

victorylarry · Aug 2, 2014

Hmmmm...
1. 2" target victory (we know where that one is!)
2. 4" nickel M&P target -4th change variation would do
3. Mod 14 no dash nickel (got one...but it's been made up and will have to do for now)
4. 2" pre war M&P 4th change square butt nickel - D. Carroll offered one years back and I unwisely passed it up

5. 2" nickel post war transition terrier (not a K frame but got me thinking about I frame grail guns)

Better stop here, too many wants not enough time...

JSR III · Aug 2, 2014

My vote is the K 32 to go with my K 38 and K 22.

What is your K frame Grail Gun?

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Attachments

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

US Veteran

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Similar threads