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    I am in love...

    with a K22 Outdoorsman!🥰 I bought this gun about a year ago. (Will post a link to that thread at the end of this post for more pics.) I've been busy, and haven't been able to shoot it much since I got it, but did get to put a few hundred rounds through it last weekend. Then took it apart for a...
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    My new Outdoorsman

    Got my recently purchased K22 Outdoorsman cleaned up & took a few good enough to share pics, so thought I'd show it off a bit. The only old S&W I had before this was my late great-uncle's rusty old .38 Single Action, 2nd Model(1889), which is what led me to this forum, years of me drooling over...
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    K22 Outdoorsman trigger question

    I recently purchased my first Smith from this era, a beautiful K22 Outdoorsman, which I plan on shooting alot. My question is about the trigger, and its return forward after pulling and releasing it...I have no experience with pre-war S&Ws, so maybe this is normal, but in dry firing it a few...
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    Should I have bought this?

    Been looking for a K22 Outdoorsman for awhile, and finally bought one online which I should have in the next week! Of course, the day after I buy this one, I spot one locally. Feel like I know the market pretty well for these guns, but only in good - very good condition, because that's what I've...
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    Question about S&W factory in the 1800s

    Do we know when S&W and their factory got electricity? I have always wondered if my .38 Single Action 2nd model from 1889 was made before they powered things with electricity. I also am curious how things were powered before this. I assume water was turning a wheel and shafts, with belts...
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    New member, from SC

    Hello all! I have been lurking here for 2 or 3 years, ever since I found this place & used some info found here to identify my inherited S&W .38 Single Action, 2nd Model. I also found out about getting it lettered from here. Discovered it was shipped in 1889 to Meachum Arms, in St. Louis. From...
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