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A friend sent me home from the range with his 22LR SA revolver. Its was in 3 baggies and he didn't offer any explanation (we are good friends). When I got it back together I was pretty thrilled to have another revolver in the house, even if only till I give it back. Just wanted to share.

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Yeah, I had one for a while. As you can see, they were made in Italy by Tanfoglio. You often see them referred to as a "Buffalo Scout".
 
About a year ago I worked on one of those for a coworker. It came from his dad who had recently passed and it was rough. The ejector head was plastic on his and had broken. I swapped in a single six ejector and only had to shorten it by about an inch and that got it back to functional. If I recall correctly these guns were the grandparents of the HRR guns before a couple sell offs.
 
Congratulations on your acquisition, I hope you enjoy it. I actually own one myself; call it my "beer can gun". Reason being, is that both the barrel and cylinder are shimmed with beer cans. However, the cylinder gap is so great, and lockup so poor, that I never shoot it and have cannibalized some parts off of it for other guns. I do recall that it shot halfway decently, though it was bloody loud!

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Well then it must be a target model.

Or made to pass import laws. "Sure it's a target model, don't you see the thumb rest?"
"Saturday night especial? Ohohohoh, no, no Signore, she's-a made for-a the whole week!" :D

I have had exactly one Bag-O-Gun experience. An Erma KGP-68A. I removed the knuckle pin. o_O:eek::(

I had one of those years ago and was actually pretty accurate but not real fun to load and unload. Mine had firing pin indents that snagged the cases. Taking them out rendered it unusable. It seems the firing pin dents were the only thing holding the rim close enough to the firing pin to set it off. I peened the other side and it worked again. That's when I traded it for a Galesi .25ACP... :thumbdown:
 
Maybe same reason they’re present with the FEG SMC .380 PPK copy I have... though the “thumbrest” on it is rather tiny.

Stay safe.
I'm thankful for those thumb rest grips on the FEG SMC even though I switch them out for regular. The FEG SMC, so the internet says, is THE smallest handgun imported since the 1968 GCA. I have 2 in 9x18, 2 in 380, and 2 in 22LR. Always a work around !
 
I had bought one with the .22 WMR conversion cylinder about a dozen years ago for a good enough price to just get experience with it. One range trip and the gritty, heavy trigger combined with lackluster accuracy made me quickly pass it on.

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It had come with a lot of .22 Short Aguila ammo. I still have some of that ammo and incidentally shot some through a Hammerli 210 last week end.
 
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Also the safest double action pistol made. It takes two men to pull the trigger. :mad::eek:
Hmmm, while it’s certainly more than on a match pistol maybe you got a lemon. The trigger was so much better than my Manhurin PPK/s I sent the Walther packing. I still have the FEG. :).

Now the trigger on my AMT back up .380... that is measured in tons..,:thumbdown:

Stay safe.
 
Hmmm, while it’s certainly more than on a match pistol maybe you got a lemon. The trigger was so much better than my Manhurin PPK/s I sent the Walther packing. I still have the FEG. :).

Now the trigger on my AMT back up .380... that is measured in tons..,:thumbdown:

Stay safe.
Possible. I paid extra for "like new" back when Aztec Arms was importing them. I have one of those Polish 64's that's the same way: really nice single-action, can barely get the trigger all the way back double-action. Mayube my fingers are just too long... My FIE was the opposite - great trigger but it had been shot out and I didn't notice until after I got it. Let me rephrase - not "shot out" but dry-fired out. I'm betting a previous owner dry-fired it playing "Cowboy" to peen the chambers like it was. Wish I'd taken pictures to show people who dry-fire rimfires why it's a bad idea.
 
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