Another early postwar K-22

[DCW]

Not too long ago I learned that the first few thousand postwar K-22s used knobbed ejector rods left over from prewar production. Since I really like that look, I have kept my eyes open for one of these guns. About a week ago I found one.

Yesterday I took delivery. Please meet K4267, which shipped from the factory in September of 1947. The gun is about 98%, with only a little finish thinning at the muzzle and some light speckling on the upper backstrap. Everything else looks new. The numbers all match. I will probably shoot this one a few times to feel as though it is really mine, and then let it become a look-at gun. I have two other K22s (also five-screws, from 1948 and 1953 respectively); they are my just-for-fun shooters and practice target revolvers. There is also a K-22 Outdoorsman from 1934 that I shot a few times and then put away.





I've got to get this K-22 monkey off my back or I will NEVER get the money together for the Triple Lock that I keep telling myself I really want.

[Forester]

Oh man, that is a FINE looking K22. Congratulations.

[Gizamo]

Fish hook Hammer, Post War Transitional Stocks, knobbed ejector rod....

What's not to like about that one!!!.


giz

[Catdad]

I gotta tell ya, that's about as good as it gets, congrats on a beautiful find.
Keep shootin it, that gun begs to be shot, why let someone else have the pleasure when your gone, and besides its already been shot.
Great picture.

[Hunter]

Wow that is a beauty!! Congrats!!

[DHENRY]

Beautiful, hard-to-find example.
Good going!
Don

[Triplelock]

Very nice. The knobbed ejector rod with the barrel cut-out is really different. The fish hook hammer adds to the package of this distinctive and very desirable 5-screw.

Hank

[wraco]

DCW - nice looking K-22. I understand the satisfaction in picking up one of these early post-war K-22, with the one-line address, ejector knob and barrel cut-out. Got me excited as well. Picked this up about 3 years ago, the serial number is only a couple hundred away from yours.

Regards:
Rod

serial number K 4032



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[Sebago Son]

I've got to get this K-22 monkey off my back or I will NEVER get the money together for the Triple Lock that I keep telling myself I really want.

There is no cure.

K117







Prewar Outdoorsman's. First Model and Second Model (K-22/40).





17 No Dash.



Welcome to hell.

[DCW]

Truth to tell, Hell doesn't look as bad as I thought it would. Maybe there is an upside to this addiction thing after all.

As a token of my continuing devotion to the .22 cause, I'll just throw in these pictures of K196446, my 1953 K-22, with southpaw Roper stocks:







Since I took these photos the Ropers have migrated to K14784, which did not have matching-number magnas on it, and the original magnas with the proper number have gone back on the K196446.

David W.