Please help me with H & R Sportsman.

[cowssurf]

My brother-in-law just got his father's old H & R Sportsman, .22 LR, break open revolver. He could not, for the life of him, figure out how to break it open to load it. I came over to his house to see it. I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to break it open. I've never used or handled a top-break revolver, and neither has he.

Can somebody with some knowledge please help us out? Thanks.

 

[sm]

Lift up the rear sight

 

[halfacop]

Its really as simple as Sm says it is.................just lift up on the rear sight.







Enjoy - they are great accurate pistols and a ball to shoot! Mine is my grandfathers pistol I was given when he passed away a few years back! The hammer is actually a new one he made (he was a tool and die guy) after my dad dropped it (when he was a kid) while practicing fast draw with blanks in the basement.

 

[cowssurf]

Thanks so much guys.

 

[TimboKhan]

The Sportsman 999 is my favorite .22 revolver of all time, hands down. Big, big fan of that gun, and I wish that it were possible to buy a new one in stainless today.

 

[22-rimfire]

Good basic 22 revolver. Enjoy it.

 

[Moonclip]

I have 2x sportsman revolvers. For some reason I see them more often in my area than the more modern 999 version. I like them but my 1941 version has an annoying habit of producing light firing pin strikes, maybe it needs a good claning and/or a new mainspring?