NFrameFred
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They have a quite a few quaint sayings in this part of the country . . . " the sun don't shine on one dog's tail all the time" . . . " even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while" . . . "every dog has his day" . . .well, today must have been my day.
Decided to take the wife up the road about 30 miles to an Eye-talian joint we like for some dinner and she asked if I was going to stop at a local gun show while we were up there (gotta love a woman like that). To be honest, I really had not planned on it since the last four or five times I went there was nothing seen of any interest. I told her "maybe". She asked again when we got close and I really did not decide until we were almost to the turn off and thought "what the heck, why not".
Got inside about 3 hours before the show closed and had not been there 15 minutes and had already seen at least three S&W's I wouldn't have minded trading on , had I been interested enough to remember to bring some trading fodder
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Two thirds of the way through the show there was a table run by a young man who recently opened a shop in the area and low and behold, there was a K22 on the table. Now, he seemed very nice and probably very knowledgeable about all the plastic semi-autos that are the rage, but told me the revolver was a consignment gun and he didn't know a lot about it.
So I bought it.
Five screw with a five digit serial number with "K" prefix indicates 1949. The hurried light-fading pix below pairs it with a 1972 17-2 I picked up locally a few years ago at what I thought was a very good price. Paid almost $15 more for the K22
. I need to find some correct grips for it and except for some minor surface wear on the bottom of the trigger guard and behind at the grip knuckle, I'd have to rate the original finish at around 93-95%. Any thin looking areas are due to the fill-in flash that was used since I was running out of available light. Can't wait to take this one to the range ! I've drooled over old K22's in the threads here and never dreamed I would luck into one this nice at that kind of a price.
Presently doing the "happy dance" .
Decided to take the wife up the road about 30 miles to an Eye-talian joint we like for some dinner and she asked if I was going to stop at a local gun show while we were up there (gotta love a woman like that). To be honest, I really had not planned on it since the last four or five times I went there was nothing seen of any interest. I told her "maybe". She asked again when we got close and I really did not decide until we were almost to the turn off and thought "what the heck, why not".
Got inside about 3 hours before the show closed and had not been there 15 minutes and had already seen at least three S&W's I wouldn't have minded trading on , had I been interested enough to remember to bring some trading fodder
.Two thirds of the way through the show there was a table run by a young man who recently opened a shop in the area and low and behold, there was a K22 on the table. Now, he seemed very nice and probably very knowledgeable about all the plastic semi-autos that are the rage, but told me the revolver was a consignment gun and he didn't know a lot about it.
So I bought it.
Five screw with a five digit serial number with "K" prefix indicates 1949. The hurried light-fading pix below pairs it with a 1972 17-2 I picked up locally a few years ago at what I thought was a very good price. Paid almost $15 more for the K22
. I need to find some correct grips for it and except for some minor surface wear on the bottom of the trigger guard and behind at the grip knuckle, I'd have to rate the original finish at around 93-95%. Any thin looking areas are due to the fill-in flash that was used since I was running out of available light. Can't wait to take this one to the range ! I've drooled over old K22's in the threads here and never dreamed I would luck into one this nice at that kind of a price.Presently doing the "happy dance" .
