It appears that I am about a 1/2 year late finding this forum- I have read with sadness of the death of Jim Hauff. It was Mr Hauff's extensive fund of knowledge that I had hoped to tap when I took the pictures of this little revolver for this post.
I recently acquired this .22 H&R revolver that I initially thought was a 999 Sportsman but on inspection found that it was a SA pistol that apparently has been re finished. There are no markings on the barrel where the H&R model number would generally be and the flats have a wavy surface that appears to be from over buffing. Additionally the frame color is an odd plum that I have not seen before. The front sight has a screw in the front of the ramp (?elevation adjustment?)
The serial number is S 115xx.
It shoots very well and has a good trigger (1-1 1/2 " groups off hand at 7 yds with 5/9 rounds in 1/2"), but there seems to be a fair amount of side splatter and it produced one keyholing round out of 50 or so (Centurion hollow points {cheap cheap}).
My question is, what do I have here?(I suspect the value is not very high)
I hope that some of Mr Hauff's knowledge has been passed on to others on this forum.
Thanks,
DocAitch
I recently acquired this .22 H&R revolver that I initially thought was a 999 Sportsman but on inspection found that it was a SA pistol that apparently has been re finished. There are no markings on the barrel where the H&R model number would generally be and the flats have a wavy surface that appears to be from over buffing. Additionally the frame color is an odd plum that I have not seen before. The front sight has a screw in the front of the ramp (?elevation adjustment?)
The serial number is S 115xx.



It shoots very well and has a good trigger (1-1 1/2 " groups off hand at 7 yds with 5/9 rounds in 1/2"), but there seems to be a fair amount of side splatter and it produced one keyholing round out of 50 or so (Centurion hollow points {cheap cheap}).
My question is, what do I have here?(I suspect the value is not very high)
I hope that some of Mr Hauff's knowledge has been passed on to others on this forum.
Thanks,
DocAitch