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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