If I don't find a way to deal with this K-22 situation, I am going to need an intervention. I think my acquisitions are starting to drift into obsession.
Only a few months ago I learned that the earliest postwar K-22s used the large-knob ejector rods familiar from prewar models. Once I knew that, I knew I would have to add one to my stable because I really like the prewar features. One showed up in the WTS ads a week ago, I jumped on it.
Today I picked it up from my importing FFL. I am delighted now that I see it in reality. The S/N is a lowish K4267 (matching numbers everywhere), and Roy Jinks tells me it was shipped in September of 1947. Narrow-rib barrel, of course. Finish is about 98 percent, with slight muzzle wear and very light speckling on the upper backstrap. Everything else is beautiful, and I am particularly pleased at the very light turn ring. The action is sweet. No end shake, no rotational play to speak of, crisp single action, smooth double action, no push-off. Shiny chambers and bore. This gun cannot have been shot much, and it was certainly well cared for in the last 62 years.
I swear I did not see all that dust and the cat hairs until I got the photos on my computer screen. If I had any of my own hair left, I would tear it out in exasperation. I think I am going to have to build a clean room and turn it into a photography studio.
Only a few months ago I learned that the earliest postwar K-22s used the large-knob ejector rods familiar from prewar models. Once I knew that, I knew I would have to add one to my stable because I really like the prewar features. One showed up in the WTS ads a week ago, I jumped on it.
Today I picked it up from my importing FFL. I am delighted now that I see it in reality. The S/N is a lowish K4267 (matching numbers everywhere), and Roy Jinks tells me it was shipped in September of 1947. Narrow-rib barrel, of course. Finish is about 98 percent, with slight muzzle wear and very light speckling on the upper backstrap. Everything else is beautiful, and I am particularly pleased at the very light turn ring. The action is sweet. No end shake, no rotational play to speak of, crisp single action, smooth double action, no push-off. Shiny chambers and bore. This gun cannot have been shot much, and it was certainly well cared for in the last 62 years.
I swear I did not see all that dust and the cat hairs until I got the photos on my computer screen. If I had any of my own hair left, I would tear it out in exasperation. I think I am going to have to build a clean room and turn it into a photography studio.
