K-22 First Model front sight.
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Bill
Post a couple of good pictures of what you have now. It will help us a lot
in responding.
Later, Mike Priwer
Post a couple of good pictures of what you have now. It will help us a lot
in responding.
Later, Mike Priwer
Bill
Find someone who has a cellphone with a camera, have them take a picture, and
email it to me - [email protected]
King was a custom gunshop who had a whole line of front sight blades, among
a lot of other things. Charlie Call was long-time factory employee, for whom the
Call bead front sight was named. Its bead its flush with the rear face of the
sight blade. The McGivern gold-bead front sight is yet another design, in which
the bead is more/less hemi-spherical, and projects backward from the rear face
of the blade.
If the blade is stamped/marked King, then it is not a Call. King may have had
something that resembles a McGivern factory blade. If your blade were not stamped
King, then it probably would have been a Call, as that was the standard sight blade
for the K-22's.
By the way, that front sight blade should be pinned into the forged front sight base.
The pin can be removed, the sight blade taken out, and you might be able to buy another
blade.
Hope you can see my confusion, and why a picture would help.
Later, Mike Priwer
Find someone who has a cellphone with a camera, have them take a picture, and
email it to me - [email protected]
King was a custom gunshop who had a whole line of front sight blades, among
a lot of other things. Charlie Call was long-time factory employee, for whom the
Call bead front sight was named. Its bead its flush with the rear face of the
sight blade. The McGivern gold-bead front sight is yet another design, in which
the bead is more/less hemi-spherical, and projects backward from the rear face
of the blade.
If the blade is stamped/marked King, then it is not a Call. King may have had
something that resembles a McGivern factory blade. If your blade were not stamped
King, then it probably would have been a Call, as that was the standard sight blade
for the K-22's.
By the way, that front sight blade should be pinned into the forged front sight base.
The pin can be removed, the sight blade taken out, and you might be able to buy another
blade.
Hope you can see my confusion, and why a picture would help.
Later, Mike Priwer
rburg
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Gold front beads are Call Gold, silver colored ones are "Call Brilliant". Finding a replacement will be an exercise. Good luck. I don't know that I've ever seen one for sale. I thought rear sight leafs and blades were hard to locate. Front may border on impossible.
Dick
You are probably right. I was thinking more along the lines that if
he is taking the gun to a jeweler, it might be better, and more legal,
to just take the front sight blade. Most jewelers I know don't have a
FFL license, for one thing ! There might be other issues, as well, that
relate to walking into a jewelry shop with a gun.
Regards, Mike Priwer
You are probably right. I was thinking more along the lines that if
he is taking the gun to a jeweler, it might be better, and more legal,
to just take the front sight blade. Most jewelers I know don't have a
FFL license, for one thing ! There might be other issues, as well, that
relate to walking into a jewelry shop with a gun.
Regards, Mike Priwer
Bill
Here is a page from the King Catalog - maybe its like one of these ?
Maaybe like 138 or 139 ? While this is the Colt page, 138 & 139 are actually S&W blades.
Later, Mike
Here is a page from the King Catalog - maybe its like one of these ?
Maaybe like 138 or 139 ? While this is the Colt page, 138 & 139 are actually S&W blades.
Later, Mike
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