1905 hand ejector 32-20

[Wiregrassguy]

Welcome to the forums from the Wiregrass! Since you posted in a thread about .32-20 hand ejectors, I'm presuming that is what you have. Your serial number would put it in 1906 and it is probably a Model of 1905 (3rd Model 32-20).

 

[jkingrph]

After getting this little gem in back in April, I finally had the opportunity to shoot it. The action is very smooth, cylinder latch very tight, almost sticking at times, but I guess tight is better than loose. It shoots a bit high at 25 yards, the Wonder sight making it a bit higher than the fixed sight notch. All in all I'm happy.

My wife was recovering from back surgery and then had to have some work on her left foot. We went out of town for a few day over to NE Louisiana, where there is an excellent parish sheriffs dept range about 4 miles from the house there, so I did not have to leave her long and could always get back in a few minutes if needed. I'm hoping to get another range session in back here in Texas before surgery on the other foot, assuming the weather will cool off a bit.

I cleaned it a couple of day after shooting and noticed the cylinder release was very tight and the action seemed to drag. I took the sideplate off and could see nothing wrong, and everything functioned smoothly, and drag returned after replacing the sideplate??? I took it down to my gunsmith this afternoon and told him what was going on, he took a quick look and said the ejector rod has loosened up a bit. He took a pair of padded pliers and tigntened it and everything is back smooth as it should be. I remember something like that after working on one nearly 40 years ago, but had never had the problem so I guess I had forgotten that it needed to be tight. He commented on how tight the lockup was and timing was excellent for a 96 year old revolver.