mkk41
US Veteran
Can't be over-represented because there is no "Ultimate K-22 thread" , yet.
Why Is K22 So Over Represented?
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My 1948 vintage K 22 doesn't want to extract; you have to tap the extractor rod with a plastic hammer before it will release the empties. What's wrong? Were those chambers made for ammo that had more wax or grease on them than today?
I bought my first S&W 22lr revolver about 4 years ago and now I have 8. Why because they are extremely well made and a blast to shoot and great to let the grandkids shoot a brick of ammo an shoot until they finally get tired of shooting.
I own just about every pistol caliber except 10mm and I reload so it's not just a pure cost deal for me as much as it's a fun to shot situation that provides many positive reasons for shooting the lowly 22LR. The first is the practice of trigger control and the second is sight picture and you can work one these for the cheap and they apply to all pistol shooting and will make you a better shooter.
My son learned to shoot a rifle by shooting a pellet gun 1000's of times a month and when he got his first rifle he already had the skills honed to be a crack shot.
I own just about every pistol caliber except 10mm and I reload so it's not just a pure cost deal for me as much as it's a fun to shot situation that provides many positive reasons for shooting the lowly 22LR. The first is the practice of trigger control and the second is sight picture and you can work one these for the cheap and they apply to all pistol shooting and will make you a better shooter.
My son learned to shoot a rifle by shooting a pellet gun 1000's of times a month and when he got his first rifle he already had the skills honed to be a crack shot.
There's one on ebay.... search... gun accessories / boxes- cases/ S&W
JIM........
Why do we like them? Maybe that they are the perfect revolver. Reliable, accurate, easy to shoot well. I like my model 63, but it's nowhere close to my 1967 vintage K22 that I've had for 35 years.
I have to keep it, because it's got stories on me that I'm not sure I want repeated.
I have to keep it, because it's got stories on me that I'm not sure I want repeated.
i'm not nearly as "crazy" as you...i didn't own any .22 Smiths until Feb of this year. i currently own these, and shoot all of them. i may buy more if the prices are too good to pass on.. as these were
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I don't feel they are over rated at all, and Neither did the Inventor of the perfected cartridge of them being D. B. Wesson. He Poured countless hours into perfecting the Primer Ignition of the .22 cartridge in secrecy inside his factory until he got it just right, after he captured the expired Patent of Rollin White's straight through cylinder design, which was held while he worked with Sam Colt. He called his creation "The Number One Cartridge" intending it's use primarily for the companies number one revolver in 1857, sadly, D.B. Wesson would not see the Importance of his cartridge primer improvement to grow into what we know as the K-22 as he died of Heart failure on August 4, 1906, But his son't that followed in his foot step's & that ran his company would. Later on serious Target shooters as Phil Bekeart of California prompted the birth of the 22-32 Hand eject Target model that was not well received by fellow shooters as letter's began to pour in that the serious Target shooter's wanted a larger frame Target .22 revolver, and thus it sparked the ignition for the Birth of the first series of K-22's being "The Larger K-Frame Outdoorsman" which we saw the order come from Harold Wesson, who was D.B.'s son and then president of S&W on August 13,1930 as he called for the tooling fixtures to be used to make 500 K-Frames into the brand new exciting K-22 Outdoorsman Target revolver. It was the first revolver to have a recessed cylinder to encompass the heads of the newer high speed .22 Cartridge brought out by Remington Arm's and Winchester repeating Arms.
This new innovated feature was of a safety design built into the then new Outdoorsman series K-22 revolver's as the engineer's of S&W Learned of a serious Case head Rupturing problem with the new super speed ammo and they had heard shooters and by stander's were getting hurt from this flying shrapnel of these bursting case heads at shooting events, so they set out to eliminate this problem. The design & Development team of Smith Wesson was in such a hurry to offer his new safety feature of a Recessed cylinder, and offer it to the public that they failed to Apply for a Patent on it, and it is one of the most copied design's ever known to this day used by all other Manufacturers on their gun's after seeing how important it was in eliminating Case head ruptures. The new line of K-22's were winning many shooting event's as well as the hearts of hunters that carried them in the woods so the demand was very strong for them as it remains to be today. To me, it was good sense and good business to come out with the K-22 and they were a very important gun of the Famous S&W Legacy of the finest guns made or offered....Here is the K-22 that started it all, an Outdoorsman that shipped in September 1936. The fit and finish of these guns remains unmatched well over three quarter's of a Century later, that Other Gun Manufacturer's could only follow not Lead after this example hit the market....
I don't feel they are over rated at all, and Neither did the Inventor of the perfected cartridge of them being D. B. Wesson. He Poured countless hours into perfecting the Primer Ignition of the .22 cartridge in secrecy inside his factory until he got it just right, after he captured the expired Patent of Rollin White's straight through cylinder design, which was held while he worked with Sam Colt. He called his creation "The Number One Cartridge" intending it's use primarily for the companies number one revolver in 1857, sadly, D.B. Wesson would not see the Importance of his cartridge primer improvement to grow into what we know as the K-22 as he died of Heart failure on August 4, 1906, But his son't that followed in his foot step's & that ran his company would. Later on serious Target shooters as Phil Bekeart of California prompted the birth of the 22-32 Hand eject Target model that was not well received by fellow shooters as letter's began to pour in that the serious Target shooter's wanted a larger frame Target .22 revolver, and thus it sparked the ignition for the Birth of the first series of K-22's being "The Larger K-Frame Outdoorsman" which we saw the order come from Harold Wesson, who was D.B.'s son and then president of S&W on August 13,1930 as he called for the tooling fixtures to be used to make 500 K-Frames into the brand new exciting K-22 Outdoorsman Target revolver. It was the first revolver to have a recessed cylinder to encompass the heads of the newer high speed .22 Cartridge brought out by Remington Arm's and Winchester repeating Arms.
This new innovated feature was of a safety design built into the then new Outdoorsman series K-22 revolver's as the engineer's of S&W Learned of a serious Case head Rupturing problem with the new super speed ammo and they had heard shooters and by stander's were getting hurt from this flying shrapnel of these bursting case heads at shooting events, so they set out to eliminate this problem. The design & Development team of Smith Wesson was in such a hurry to offer his new safety feature of a Recessed cylinder, and offer it to the public that they failed to Apply for a Patent on it, and it is one of the most copied design's ever known to this day used by all other Manufacturers on their gun's after seeing how important it was in eliminating Case head ruptures. The new line of K-22's were winning many shooting event's as well as the hearts of hunters that carried them in the woods so the demand was very strong for them as it remains to be today. To me, it was good sense and good business to come out with the K-22 and they were a very important gun of the Famous S&W Legacy of the finest guns made or offered....Here is the K-22 that started it all, an Outdoorsman that shipped in September 1936. The fit and finish of these guns remains unmatched well over three quarter's of a Century later, that Other Gun Manufacturer's could only follow not Lead after this example hit the market....
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