The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - I'd love to see that one!

I'd love to see that one! (reply)

Harry O-1 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:44:25 +0000

Sorry. No pictures, but it is a stock-standard early 1960's K-22 in blued steel, 6" barrel, and 6-shots. Nothing fancy. The only thing I have on it that did not come from the factory is a grip filler between the back of the trigger-guard and the front of the handgrip.

I'd love to see that one! (reply)

FOG — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:24:09 +0000

If you have a picture, that is.

I remember one time... (reply)

FOG — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:22:17 +0000

I was out at Ye Olde Gravel Pit with the dot-sighted 617 and a carton of Zappers. As usual, I was running the gun DA and burning through my ammo supply at a steady clip.

Targets that day were the ever-present aluminum cans, only these were WAY UP THERE on the rocks. I had 'em dancin' like they was made for it, often hitting them on the move, in mid-air.

Right about then a carload of tyros pulled up, and as they shut off the engine to watch me trigger off another 5-shot string, a collective *GASP* eminated from the passenger compartment.

Then, one of the youngin's got out of the car and shouted,

"HOW DO YOU DO THAT WITH A PISTOL?!?"

I looked down at the 617, then over at the boys and said with the best Cheshire Cat grin I could muster,

"It has a scope."

Only a few... (reply)

FOG — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:41:55 +0000

I took the dot-sighted 617 ground squirrel hunting, but only once, and as I recall, that was mainly another Mountain Gun Day. I was using CCI 'Stingers' (in the 617, not the 629 - LOL), and I was kind of underwhelmed at the results.

A few years ago, I revisited the .22 rimfire in a 'rifle' (16-inch barrel), and the outcome wasn't much better. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't.

By 'work', I mean dead right now: No wigglin', no nuthin'.

When it comes to varmints, I figure that's the least (most?) I can do for 'em.

My First K22 (reply)

Harry O-1 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:15:07 +0000

My first K-22 was bought when I was 14. I spent most of that summer scraping peeled paint off the outside of my parents house to get it ready for painting, in order to earn the money for it.

I still have it more than a half-century later.

I can testify.... (reply)

Glen — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:16:59 +0000

...that that group is no fluke. That 617 is a superbly accurate revolver. How many ground squirrels does that gun have on its tally now Dave?

'Bird's Eye View' (reply)

FOG — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:03:34 +0000

The dot appears sharper in 'real life', but this shot gives a pretty fair perspective of the overall picture.

Here, the 11-position rheostat is set on '3', and the batteries are fresh.

The revolver is lightly clamped in a vise (the blue rag is padding), and the camera is on a small tripod.

My First K22

FOG — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:07:45 +0000

(Edited for grammar.)

I wanted one for at least 20 years before I finally wised up and got this one back in the early Nineties.

It's worn a dot scope almost since Day One, here the long-discontinued Tasco 'ProPoint 4' with a 10" dot. That might seem large, but it isn't really, inside that 45-mm (!) tube.

IIRC, the base is a Weigand, and while the scope does sit rather high, this presents no difficulties in actual practice.

If the cans are that close, you just point-shoot them.

As seen here, the 'BIG DOT' does not preclude accuracy. On the contrary, I have always found it a significant aid in that department.

At the time this group was fired (5/10/96), the best I could hold with iron sights at 50' were five-shot groups right around 1⅛". This one is less than half that, and it was not a fluke. (It was fired from a sandbag rest, though.)

The only strange thing was the ammo the gun liked: PMC 'Zapper', which was as cheap as it sounds. In addition, it shot about as well with the similarly discontinued CCI 'Mini Mag +V', a hyper-velocity round.

A dot-sighted K22 might not seem very 'practical', but you can be sure of one thing: It is a heck of a lot of fun!