S&W 649 and Iver Johnson Target Sealed-8
Hello! I am new to this forum. Here are my two blasters. The first is my S&W 649 Bodyguard, manufacture date of 1994. I had my local armorer file the front sight and install a red ramp insert. It truly improves the accuracy quite a bit! This gun can be shot three different ways - single action, continuous double action, and the third way, as I call it - "clockworked double action". The trigger has a handy... lockup point, or lack of a better word, at the final point in the double action cycle, which allows for a single action-type follow through. The 649 also fires .38 Special, .38 wadcutters, .38 +P, and .357 rounds. Speedloaders make sustained fire a cinch.
The second gun is an old 60s-era Iver Johnson Target Sealed-8 .22 caliber. It holds eight rounds of .22 Long Rifle in a unique (but antiquated) fixed frame/removable cylinder setup. The rear sight is a TINY V-notch, cut into the hammer, and the front sight was a skinny blade, thinner than a dime! Needless to say, finding the sights, indoor or outdoor, was pretty tough. SO I had to remedy that... so I bought a L-bracket at a hardware store, presumably for a door or window or something, for like 49 cents. I drilled and tapped the top part of the frame and filed down the bracket, which already had reccessed holes for screw mounting. Then my armorer (same guy who modified the S&W 649) gave me an aftermarket front sight, as seen in the pictures. I removed the original front sight and used epoxy to secure the sight assembly to the barrel. I wrapped baseball bat tape around the original wooded handles for extra grip. SO while it doesn't look pretty, this old Iver Johnson is my pet project, now brought to the best of its ability with some creativity and original work!