Let's see your Ivor Johnsons..!

[Oyeboten]

There's many kinds of course

Anyway, here's one -

3rd Model, Large Frame, Safety Hammerless,.38 S&W, made 1921.

Factory 2 inch Barrel...I think sometimes called a 'Bicycle Gun'.

 

[Dr.Rob]

I didn't snap a pic of it but my pal Tommy has an Iver Johnson SuperShot Sealed 8 that's just cherry. Nice heavyweight barrel, perfect for small game.

I've been keeping an eye out for one since he got his.

 

[Guns and more]

I have a 16 ga. Iver Johnson shotgun that belonged to my dad when he was younger.
Single shot. He cut the barrel down some time long ago. (It's still plenty long, it must have been really long!) I went hunting with him in the '50's and I think that gun was fairly old then. He used a twig as a sight (drilled a hole in the shorter barrel and replaced the twig after every shot.) I'd like to get it refinished for purely sentimental reasons, but now it sits in pieces in the safe.

 

[Oyeboten]

Got the little Snubby recently, and promptly sent off for a Book about Ivor Johnsons, and have been reading up on them.


Pistolwise...in 1909, on through around 1911, I J revamped the whole lineup for handling 'Smokeless', electing new Alloys and Metalurgy and also re-designing pretty well everything.

As you can see, this example has a positive Cylinder Locking Lug, no behind-the-Trigger 'release'.

All in all, it is snug, smooth action, very well made, very good fit-and-finish...tight lock up and rock solid all round.


The final form of the 3rd Model, went from 1911 to 1941.

 

[Mike J]

My Dad had an Ivers Johnson Snubnose my Grandmother gave him. He only shot it once or twice. I don't know what model it was or what year it was made but it was a neat little gun.

 

[PAPACHUCK]

My only IJ, it's in .22 mag and I have no idea what it's model number is.
It's a good shooter, but collects dust most of the time.

 

[remmy1911]

Iver Johnson Super Shot Sealed Eight

 

[MCgunner]

I have a 16 ga. Iver Johnson shotgun that belonged to my dad when he was younger.
Single shot.

I have one marked "Hercules" on the receiver. It's a 16 gauge single shot 30" full choke my uncle gave me when I was a kid to hunt geese with because the only shotgun I had was my grandpa's 20 gauge Wingmaster at the time and it was a 2 3/4" chamber. The 16 brought down the geese with lead shot. It had a broken ejector which a gunsmith machined for me for 25 bucks. He couldn't get parts for it. I think the guy helped out the kids or something, awful lot of work for 25 bucks. He was a really good smith, a machinist as well as a smith.

I sent a letter to the NRA at the time asking about the origin of the gun as the only markings were the gauge and "Hercules". They told me it was an Iver Johnson discontinued in 1947 and was sold as a badged gun through a hardware retailer as "Hercules".

I still have that old gun, don't use it, but wouldn't mess with it and would never part with it, don't care if it ain't worth diddly money wise. It's worth a lot of memory to me.

 

[Gordon]

Large frame .32 S&W Long Target model 95% and tight as new with small frame .32 snub my wife used to carry in a velvet bag in purse

 

[herohog]

Ben/Stewart Sansing? Is that you? (RIP friend, this one was for you)

 

[woad_yurt]

My Iver Johnson and US Revolver Co pieces (w/fingerprints!)

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[JR47]

We have a pair of Iver Johnson TP22s, bought almost 30 years ago, and still NIB, never fired. There's also an older, nickle-plated IJ Safety Hammer, 3", in .38 S&W. It was bought before WWII by my step-mother's late husband. I have the original box, a glass bottle for cleaning fluid, and a bristle-bore brush. We even have a box of the old Remington "Dog-Bone" ammo for it.

 

[salvo]

I bought this TP22 new, it's been shot quite a bit and is surprisingly accurate and reliable.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

I saw TP22 last year it was NIB and the lady sold it for $75 cash to a friend of mine.