41 rimfire was in a Carson City gun shop as part of the store owner’s mini-museum of old ammo. There’s another issue with these older pocket guns–no ammo available. Even the wretched RG and Clerke revolvers would still work after 50 rounds–and their proud owners probably wouldn’t fire more than a dozen shots over a period of decades. 22 revolver of the same name wasn’t inexpensive) and the low-cost defensive pistols of the period between the end of World War Two and the Gun Control Act of 1968? While many of these cheap guns were disparaged because they weren’t intended to fire thousands of rounds, both Smith and Wesson and Colt produced expensive alloy-framed guns for the USAF Aircrew Revolver program that had service lives of less than 50 rounds. 22 revolvers in various finishes–such as the pink High Standard carried by Agent 99 in Get Smart? What about inexpensive kit guns (the S&W. The gun and ammunition costs are probably small change in the production of these videos, so I don’t expect to see many more on the less expensive guns. Not just handguns–there were lines of economy-model shotguns (mostly single shot) and economy-model rifles (mostly rimfire 22 rifles). Ran across this late, but talk about Forgotten Weapons! The hardware guy – who was also huge on Belgian Brownings, especially Auto-5 shotguns, really knew his guns – sold a bunch of them to farmers who wanted something they could toss in the pickup glove box that would work when needed, and what more can you ask for? They were your basic “Saturday Night Special” pull-pin-and-remove-cylinder design as contemporary crap like the RG, but the article I saw went into Clarke’s philosophy that poor people deserved decent weapons, and it didn’t cost that much more to make a basic revolver with decent metal and tolerances. I can’t find any reference to them on the internet but I remember reading a short article about them years ago.
The owner of the hardware store in my hometown when I was a kid – late 60s/ early 70s – was huge on them. While you are rooting around in the fishing-sinker box, though, keep an eye out for a Clarke. Seems like it would be a natural for Uberti or someone to bring back for cowboy sports the little breaktops were a lot more common in the Wild West (and Wild East) than the Peacemaker or Schofield. Didn’t have the hump over the hammer the way this IJ does, and for my money the lemon squeezer is just a perfect example of ergonomics, in either hand. 22 was the poor man’s K22.) But the real pocket jewel of this era was the “lemon squeezer” hammerless grip safety Smith and Wesson. So I have a fondness for breaktops, from little. Really enjoyed this video – my strong eye is the right and I shoot long guns right-handed, but I’ve always been a leftie with handguns. I decided it wasn’t a problem to run a handful of light rounds through for the purposes of the video. Shooting full-power smokeless loads could cause more serious and spectacular damage, so you do so at your own risk. Continued shooting of light smokeless loads will cause the cylinder gap to grow and impair the timing. I was using light handloads, which is still not a good idea for the pistol, as smokeless powder burns faster than black powder, and creates a higher peak pressure for the same muzzle velocity as a BP load. Have a look:įor the record, this is a 2nd model Safety Hammerless, which is not intended for smokeless powder. You’ve seen the clever and innovative trigger safety on the Glock – and now on a bunch of other striker-fired pistols – right? Well, Iver-Johnson was doing that over a century ago. Why bother with a cheap old (and pretty commonplace) revolver? To be honest, there is one reason that specifically pushed me to buy it: the safety. I believe this is the least expensive gun we have yet covered on Forgotten Weapons – this particular example cost me $49 at a local gun shop.
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