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H&R 22 Special question

triple223taptriple223tap Member Posts: 385 ✭✭✭
edited March 2008 in Ask the Experts
I have one inherited from my father, history unknown. It's obviously been shot little, about 95% condition, except - the breech face has been rather crudely filed, across the bottom half. I'd think this was done by a ham-handed person for some reason not obvious to me, excepting the face is blued. Either Mr. ham-hand did his work, and then had it reblued, or it was done at the factory.

Could this crude work be factory original?
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  • b.goforthb.goforth Member Posts: 982 ✭
    edited November -1
    i don't think this question can be answered with out having the gun in hand for a hands on inspection. it does not sound factory but could have been assembled in 1942/1943 who knows?
    bill
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  • rhmc24rhmc24 Member Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The question is what is "crudely" filed. I checked my 22 Special plus several other H&R breakovers. All seem to have hand filing across below the round is in firing position. Looks to me part of the fitting process when the guns were made. The filing is crude compared to fine machining and the polished outside finish. But as filing goes it is about as good as it gets, not so much in roughness but in being accurately flat. All mine are in the upper 90%s of condition, from the rather early Special and a little unmarked 7 shooter to their top models of the Sportsman and Sportsman Single action. The 'filing' is pretty much the same on all of them.
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  • triple223taptriple223tap Member Posts: 385 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks rhmc24 -

    From what you say, the filing on my gun is "factory fitting". Looks rough to me, but likely original.
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  • 32 Magnum32 Magnum Member Posts: 820 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you view a large sampling of the H&R hinged frame pieces, you will see a wide variation in the amount and quality of "filing" in that area. Some are extremely smooth all the way; some are semi-smooth; some are smooth with an area of roughness and some are rough all across the area. My opinion, after having examined a couple hundred pieces, is that the finish in this area was not deemed worth putting a lot of time and effort into (money) and the final condition depended upon the skill and care taken by the person doing the final fitting as well as the person doing the final finishing/polishing.
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