Smith & Wesson Model 22 kal. 45 acp. (model 1917)

Til ham der troede han havde alt.

Meget sjældent udbudt Smith & Wesson model 22 / model 1917, en af de få hvis ikke den eneste i landet.

Revolveren er ny og med alt tilbehør fra fabrikken.

Som et kuriosum medfølger der originale skæfter fra den oprindelige model der kom i 1917, både den civile udgave og den militære udgave, begge skæfter er ekstremt sjældne, man kan kun gætte på hvad de har oplevet gennem 2 verdenskrige plus Korea og Vietnamkrigen, begge skæfter er hele og med den helt rigtige patina af blod, sved og måske tårer.

Historie fra Wikipedia:

Smith & Wesson Model 22 er en 6-skuds, doubleaction revolver med den store N ramme. Revolveren er kamret i .45 ACP.

Det er en raffineret kommerciel version af M1917-revolveren, der først blev produceret under første verdenskrig.

The M1917 Revolvers were six-shot, .45 ACP, large frame double action revolvers adopted by the United States Military in 1917, to supplement the standard M1911 pistol during World War I.^[1] There were two variations of the M1917, one made by Colt and the other by Smith & Wesson. They used moon-clips to hold the cartridges in position, facilitate reloading, and to aid in extraction since revolvers had been designed to eject rimmed cartridges and .45 ACP rounds were rimless for use with the magazine-fed M1911.^[2] After World War I, they gained a strong following among civilian shooters.^[3] A commercial rimmed cartridge, the .45 Auto Rim, was also developed, so M1917 revolvers could eject cartridge cases without using moon-clips.

During World War I, many U.S. civilian arms companies including Colt and Remington were producing M1911 pistols under contract for the U.S. Army, but even with the additional production there was a shortage of sidearms to issue. The interim solution was to ask Colt and Smith & Wesson, the two major American producers of revolvers at the time, to adapt their heavy-frame civilian revolvers to the standard .45 ACP pistol cartridge. Both companies’ revolvers utilized half-moon clips to extract the rimless .45 ACP cartridges. Daniel B. Wesson‘s son Joseph Wesson invented and patented the half-moon clip, which was assigned to Smith & Wesson, but at the request of the Army allowed Colt to also use the design free of charge in their own version of the M1917 revolver.

The military service of the M1917 did not end with the First World War. In November of 1940, the Army Ordnance Corps recorded a total of 96,530 Colt and 91,590 S&W M1917s still in reserve. After being parkerized and refurbished, most of the revolvers were re-issued to stateside security forces and military policemen, but 20,993 of them were issued overseas to “specialty troops such as tankers and artillery personnel” throughout the course of U.S. involvement in World War II.^[7][8] During the Korean War they were again issued to support troops.^[8] The M1917s were even used by members of the “tunnel rats” during the Vietnam War.^[8] Overall, the two variants of the M1917 enjoyed over fifty years of service in the U.S. armed forces.