Ultimate pre-61 K-22 showcase.

[mkk41]

With so many K-22s around here , lets have a gallery like the Ultimate Highway Patrolman thread. Show your guns and tell their tales.

My pre-war K-22/40 #684893.

Found it locally with Pachmayrs and the front sight coated in red nail polish. Finally found what look to be the correct grips.

 

[Doc44]

K-22 shipped in January 1935 with test target.

Bill

 

[WildBillD]

Here's mine, #K248xxx from about 1956. Paid $400 as was marked M&P 22 when owner of LGS was on vacation. Box matches gun, but sight and grips probably not original. Shoots great. Sorry about small pics, can't get the other method to work.

 

[s&wchad]

Masterpiece

Combat Masterpiece

 

[semperfi71]

Purchased 1958 as new. Owned by me the last 4 years.

 

[gjamison]

these are very nice. pictures need a help. have boxes for both as well

same gun's just different sight screw variation

this is the earliest K perfix k22 i have K6787

 

[woodsltc]

I don't post pics much, but I really like the K-22's. Here's my contribution to this thread.

Don

 

[hsguy]

Here is a 1948 single line address gun. This was the first S&W I bought when I started collecting them and stepped onto that slippery slope. The gun came with the matching box and SAT. I have another 1948 gun with the 4 line address. The gun in the photos is interesting in that it is bright polished and the box marked as such. Most of the K-22's of this era were the brushed blue.

 

[blackdeuce]

Mine is actually a 17 no dash, but it is pre-1961. I figure it's from 1960. Serial number is K418XXX. It's in really nice condition (at least 98%). Bought it about 3 years ago. All original.

 

[Camster]

My photo doesn't do it justice.
It's a 1948 model that went to Germany with a military officer in the 1950s,where it received the engraving and lots of silver wire.I replaced the custom thumbrest target grips made at the same time,with pre-war service grips,to reveal the full extent of the engraving.

 

[Cooter Brown]

Unlike most threads around here, I can actually contribute to this one!

The 22 Masterpiece on the left letters as having shipped to Abercrombie & Fitch in December, 1947. One line address, small ejector rod knob.

The 22 Combat Masterpiece on the right is from 1951 or so, and it's in my safe due to the generosity of a forum member. Don't worry, it gets shot and carried some. I'm not sure if the target hammer is original, but it's got the best trigger pull of any revolver I own.

 

[Iggy]

Best I can do.

 

[hsguy]

Best I can do.

No apology needed there Iggy, I would be proud to own that one.

 

[redlevel]

A shooter-grade, 4-digit serial #, one line address gun shipped in 1947 per SCSW. It has some freckling, so I bought it "right." I shot it some yesterday, and am about to shoot it some more today. Hands down the sweetest shooting revolver I have ever owned.

 

[redlevel]

I owned this 98% gun from the early 50s for a year or so, but I didn't want to shoot it. I sold it to a member here and later bought the shooter-grade gun in the above post.

 

[crsides]

1931 OD - First year gun shipped NOv 1931 with orig box.
1947 3 digit - Shipped the same month I was, March 1947.
1948 LNIB
17-1 hard to find variation - target hammer, bright blue, stags

K22 OD First Yr

K22 K956 Birth month/yr gun

1948 LNIB

K22 17-1 hard to find variation

Charlie

 

[highpower3006]

1948 Serial # K24367 came with the box

 

[CALREB]

k- 686XX

My only old one , box is rough but all #'s match. She adds character to all the newer 17's. Bob

 

[DCWilson]

Some fine revolvers here, absolutely fine. I'll show a few that I like ...

Two prewar ODs, 634373 from 1931 and 646390 from 1934. The box is not original to either of these guns, but is appropriate for the earliest deliveries before the red picture box was made standard.

Three postwar Masterpieces from 1947 (large knob!), 1948 and 1953: K4267, K14784 and K196446. My avatar up there beside my name is a detail shot of K14784.

And my best K-22 package, a first-year 22 CM K115589 (1951), which came with everything except the literature.

I consider all of these to be shooters, but I haven't yet had a couple of them to the range. The 22 CM is the most accurate .22 I have. It produces tighter groups than I would have thought possible for someone of my late-developed skills (if "skills" is not too elevated a word to use for my performance).

 

[Sebago Son]

Somebody Say Early K-22's?....

Prewar Adjustable Sights in detail.... First Model low left, Second Model high right.

The guns in profile... Second Model (K-22/40) on top...

A couple of other good ones...

I am the first retail owner of these guns... the 6" is still in factory grease...

A few other "roughies"....

My 17-No Dash (Seller's Photo)

Part of the bunch that lives here piled on the floor...

And last, but not least, is K117. (Photos courtesy of my friend Mr. Michael Stern)