Miroku .38 Special Revolver Revisited

[shirojiro]

I'm still waiting to pick up the revolver since I'm in CA.

I'm curious to see how the action works as well, but I'm a little nervous if reassembly took over an hour.

 

[DWalt]

I'm curious to see how the action works as well, but I'm a little nervous if reassembly took over an hour.

There is nothing difficult about reassembly. The reason it took so long to reassemble the first time was I didn't know the trick to replacing the "hand bar." You need a thin piece of metal to compress the small flat spring, as shown in my picture, before you can seat the sideplate. I used a feeler gauge. Another thing I will mention is that the firing pin attached to the hammer seems unusually long, and it concerned me as I thought that it might cause primer penetration. But that has not happened.

 

[shirojiro]

That sounds great.

I'm hoping to pickup the revolver on Tuesday and maybe sneak off to the range for some test firings.

I'll post some pictures of the guts once I have it!

 

[NevadaBob]

I know this is an old thread but here's what I recently won on GB:






The bluing is gone and she sports "patina smudges" or what's left of the bluing. There's no rust. The bore is bright with good rifling. The mechanics work nicely. I'm looking for rubber grips. I have several spare J frame grips but they don't quite wrap around. Seems like the handle is just a pinch too fat.

 

[OLDSTER]

I'd love to find a like new Miroku. If the revolver quality is as good as their OU shotguns, they'll be top notch.

 

[NevadaBob]

Thought I'd post some pics of the side plate off and the newly installed J frame Sile rubber grips. I had to whittle a bit on the insides of the grip but it fits nicely.
This a 1960 Liberty Chief snubby model. I didn't encounter any wayward springs as I removed the plate.

 

[JohnK]

I purchased two O/U shotguns, in 20 and 12 gauge, around 1967.

I was stationed at Randolph Air Force base, at the time.

These were Charles Daly branded, and exhibited flawless fit, and finish. I still have the 20 gauge.

The modern O/U's from Browning, (Miroku made) appear to be more or less identical to mine.

 

[Gene L]

Back when the SAA Army was the Technology Leader in handguns the normal practice for adjusting the Windage on a revolver was to clamp the frame up solidly in a vise and smack the barrel with a bar of babbit metal (an alloy mainly composed of lead). Basically you would bend the frame and from what I've read this was actually a Factory Endorsed procedure.

That's what they taught back in the S&W revolver days at the armor's school.

 

[DWalt]

Thought I'd post some pics of the side plate off and the newly installed J frame Sile rubber grips. I had to whittle a bit on the insides of the grip but it fits nicely.
This a 1960 Liberty Chief snubby model. I didn't encounter any wayward springs as I removed the plate.

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Yes, there appears to be at least two variations of the revolver lockwork used by Miroku.

 

[amazingflapjack]

A side benefit would be being able to open your C-rats with the front sight!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

That is NOT a bad looking gun by any means! I like it! I'll be crass....HOW MUCH???

Also is it 5 shot or 6 shot??

 

[NevadaBob]

CAJUNLAWYER...Pardon my slacker response to your post! Paid $294 total and then paid my FFL $20. The seller also included a parts kit of stuff he accumulated. It holds 6 rounds. It's a nice shooter.
Right now there's a fairly cheap one on GB with 2 days left on bidding.