H & R 922: Overview

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@GunsOfTheWest 4 ай бұрын

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@Nomed38 4 ай бұрын

The H&R revolvers are surprisingly well made for such an inexpensive firearm when they were still in production. I have a 5 shot H&R Defender break top in .38 S&W with a 3" barrel that has all of it's finish and an odd faux wood resin bird's head grip. It's a fun little heavy (for the cartridge) wheel gun that I don't shoot often due to no reloading equipment and the rarity of the cartridges.

@GShileikis 4 ай бұрын

I have an older H&R Top Break from 1914 chambered in 32 S&W Long. I have shot it a few times over the years and she does well at 7-10 yards using Magtech 32 S&W Long 98 Grain Semi-Wadcutter ammo. I received this from my wife's Aunt when she passed. She used it to protect her Fur Salon in downtown Denver from the 40's into the mid-90s. She actually dispatched a robber at point blank range as he busted the door in, in 1974.

@douglasmaccullagh7865 4 ай бұрын

Justin, there's not a .22 out there that I'm not interested in more videos on.

@Dorelaxen 3 ай бұрын

I inherited my grandfather's H&R 922. It's similar to this but with plastic grips and with a transfer bar firing pin. He bought it for a security job at a remote retirement community. Figured he at most might have to shoot a bold coyote or something, but he never fired it once. It's immaculate, too. I've fired it myself a ton, and I adore it. It's so wonderfully clunky and I love how it slows me down at the range and makes me take my time.

@henrysara7716 4 ай бұрын

Sure, it does deserve more attention in the channel.

@nordicgunner96 4 ай бұрын

I have a 922 snubbie. It's s great little revolver, and very accurate too👍🏻

@RetiredDuke 4 ай бұрын

There's a special place in my heart for old beat up revolvers. :) I have a Chicago Arms break top revolver from around the 1930s I think. It's a .32 short caliber with about a 3 inch barrel. I found a box of old Western ammunition at a gun show for it and just for giggles I took it to an indoor range. When I fired it I could hear the bullet hit the wooden floor of the range about 50 feet in front of me. It's just a fun little conversation piece I keep around. :) I most likely won't fire it again.

@jrobson100 4 ай бұрын

I found myself trying to explain the concept of a “tackle box gun” on another forum and people just didn’t get it. In an era where guns are precision instruments that can cost over a thousand bucks, the idea of a cheap little revolver that you don’t particularly care about that you throw in with your fishing gear in case you run afoul of a snake is weird to some, but it’s very much a part of the “guns are tools” mentality.

@debluetailfly 4 ай бұрын

My father bought one when I was a little kid, probably from a pawn shop. It hung on a nail on the wall, and us kids knew better than to climb on a chair and touch it. I ended up with it, but sold it. It had the dark grips. It also had an octagonal barrel. I don't remember it shooting all that accurately; maybe why I sold it. I still kinda miss it though. My family never shot it much, and neither did the guy I sold it to. It is probably still in great shape. Also had a H&R 12 gauge shotgun. Single shot, break barrel. It was all I had from my Grandfather on my dad's side. Somebody stole it. It was worn out, in that the latch that held it shut wasn't doing a very good job. I think the barrel was still ok. My dad, born in 1906, or 06, used it a lot when he was a kid. There weren't any deer back then, but he killed lots of squirrels and rabbits with it. They would smoke squirrels out of hollow trees. His father died while my father was young, so my father only made it through the 4th grade before having to become the man of the family, and with the help of his mother and sisters, run the farm and keep them all fed. At 10 years old, he was hauling wagon loads of cotton to the gin by himself.

@WinModel88 4 ай бұрын

They're great little revolvers. I own two of them, a 1953 model and a 1955 model, both 4 inch. They do shoot high but once you learn where to hold they are very good guns. I'd like to see more with this old gem.

@JG-six-gun 4 ай бұрын

All guns need more content!!!

@GunsOfTheWest 4 ай бұрын

That’s how I tend to feel too.

@chubbethsthunder 4 ай бұрын

Guns are like groceries, you never have enough.

@rquest3059 4 ай бұрын

You definitely have to try short and long ammunition. I bet the bullet impact will be closer to point of aim. That firing pin looks more like a tomahawk.

@leslieshepperd9850 4 ай бұрын

My first handgun (revolver) was a H&R 649 convertible. Loved it, until it broke one day at the range. I took it to a 'Smith, but it was right when they were transitioning to New England, and he ordered a couple of parts and installed them, but couldn't get it to work quite right. . He finally called me to come pick it up, didn't charge me anything, but I really wanted to get it fixed. Wound up selling it.

@allanwarmflash4440 4 ай бұрын

had an h and r break top 22 was a fun gun yes shoot it

@jacobmarley4907 4 ай бұрын

The 922 was still listed in their catalog in the early 1970s'. I bought a H&R Model 676, which was a 22 LR/22 Magnum loosely a replica of the Colt 1873. It had a 7 1/2" barrel and cost $125.00 and was supplied with both 22 LR and 22 Magnum cylinders. I remember it to be pretty accurate though it too shot high. I sold it for 100 bucks one year to buy the kids Christmas presents. Your 922 should be quite sturdy and serve you well. Thanks for sharing this video.

@independentthinker8930 4 ай бұрын

Yes, it wpuld be interesting to see more of! It deserves some love

@Pastor.Dragon 4 ай бұрын

I love that idea! I have an H&R 929 from my dad with a proper gate and ejector rod that is DA/SA as well.

@tomlubas1512 4 ай бұрын

The hole is just to see if rounds are live or not. They're fun lil pistols. Try burying front sight, it works on heritages that shoot high.

@HircineDaWolf 4 ай бұрын

some of them you can fit the rounds in though

@pczTV 4 ай бұрын

You should do a full “Ian” from forgotten weapons and share the whole history and development of this little beastie.

@lon242 4 ай бұрын

Anyone else thought the High Fructose Gang kinda resemble Ian? Lol

@chubbethsthunder 4 ай бұрын

Dustin, Definitely do a shooting video with the 922. Nathaniel Harrington and Frank Wesson (Daniel Wesson"s brother)started the company. Reply back with letter or letters before numbers of the serial number and I tell what year it was manufactured. You and your family have a beautiful and blessed weekend. LORD GOD Bless and stay vigilant.

@lynnie0526 4 ай бұрын

My first hand gun was a H&R 949 22lr . I bought it in 1979 and I still have it.

@anthonycalbillo9376 4 ай бұрын

That Henry is smooth like Butter.

@bluescatreimer 4 ай бұрын

Hi Dustin, great heirloom worthy of a trip to the range. Please post a video if you do.

@joecuppko40uh29 4 ай бұрын

Those are nice little revolvers for what they cost, they are very nice little pieces for what they are. Looks like the front sight may have been filed down a bit. Yes, take her out, give her a whirl, and maybe take a little time to clean her up, and here's a hint that you probably already know, take the grip panels off, folks used to put notes under the grips showing date of purchase etc, also since it was you grandmother's gun, maybe a little cold blue and some clean up on her wouldn't be a bad thing. After all if Grandma left her to you, what not keep her in shape for the next generation. And again on the front sight check to see if you can get a replacement, cause just from what I could see it looked like the front sight had been flattened. My Mom carried a little H&R .32 for years a little top break piece, when she passed I'm not sure what happened to it, so yeah take care of that one.

@lessage760 4 ай бұрын

Yes sir my we see it again love these h&r got a 732 best little gun I ever bought

@samwyckoff6216 4 ай бұрын

Yes please more video of it, love to see it shot

@ser1jxm 4 ай бұрын

I also vote for you doing a shooting session with this little revolver. I know they were relatively inexpensive, but your revolver looks very well-made and would certainly be fun to shoot.

@vehdynam 4 ай бұрын

Interesting revolver , I would like to see more of it. Thanks.

@jeffryrichardson9105 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful piece of history! 👍🏽😊❤️🇺🇸

@smokum7 4 ай бұрын

👍 nice! Years ago when I was a kid my dad got me h&r 636 da/sa buntline 12 inch model for me to use on my trap line. Best Christmas present ever.

@willbar1961 4 ай бұрын

These are cool. I got a nickel plated one with about a 3" barrel a few years ago from Clarks Custom Guns and they had a few others in 32 and 38 I think. Just a cool old 9 shooter.

@charlesmiller6826 4 ай бұрын

Let's see what she can do. yes, more videos on this one, please, and / or thanks.

@wizpopr 23 күн бұрын

I inherited a H&R 922 six inch barrel. It's an oldy for sure. I also inherited a Ruger Single Six, a Ruger Mark 22, and an old Smith & Wesson .38 special.

@dukefanshawe6815 4 ай бұрын

That's a cool little gun.

@danielsimmons7397 4 ай бұрын

I have a New England R 92 Ultra, I believe it's just the newer version of a 922. Well made, excellent, and accurate!

@cliffchilders5820 4 ай бұрын

I had one just like that back in the early 70's! I wore it out!

@jameswhite465 4 ай бұрын

Love older revolvers. More H&R922

@44DoctorMike 4 ай бұрын

I have one of these that I added to my BOB. Mine is a true shooter. I have a squirrel shaped steel and I hit it with every shot at 25 yards. I shoot Longs, Long rifle, shorts, and bird shot. Very versatile. The aim point and accuracy is about the same on L, LR, or shorts. I can carry lots of ammo in that BOB and not take up much room. The shorts are not quite suppresser quite, but the report is less than a LR. Get those sights straightened out and then show us what this H&R can do.

@lon242 4 ай бұрын

What a coincidence, I recently got to check out a H&R 999 randomly brought in for cleaning. I had no idea it or this more conventional-looking (the 999 is a top-break, 9-shot 22) model existed. Cool guns, seem well-built.

@brycejustin8750 4 ай бұрын

The first revolver I have ever shot was an H&R and like you it was hard for me to hit anything with it but after about 600 rounds I was what I consider good enough with it just to plink. I miss that gun.

@gordonbrandt9739 4 ай бұрын

I've owned the H&R 922 since the mid-70's. Differences are good wooden grips, 6inch barrel, the loading gate is a proper one as it also has a cartridge ejector. As for accuracy I find it to be very accurate and well balanced. It's no longer manufactured since H&R is out of business and the collector market can be rather surprising for a 22 Cal revolver.

@inglwud5625 4 ай бұрын

I have the same one, if yours is the same as mine, you didn't show the cylinder pin is inserted into the cylinder when its out to push the spent shells out, the built-in ejector. Love mine! Thanks!

@jimwiskus8862 4 ай бұрын

Man Dustin, with a cylinder like that, who needs a belt fed pistol! 😂

@spied9 4 ай бұрын

Dustin Great Video, I would love to see you shoot your H&R 922 in the desert !!!

@montanamountainmen6104 4 ай бұрын

I have a H&R Model 922 that was my late mothers. It has a 2 inch barrel with the orginal holster. She bought it in 1971-72 for $53.00.

@Cabmaker 4 ай бұрын

I have one of those only with a 6” barrel

@currentdiscussions4637 4 ай бұрын

When I was a kid growing up, my dad had one of these. The grips were different and I think it was 6 rounds. I shot it many times during the family camping trips.

@KuronoCthulhu 4 ай бұрын

I've got a more modern version of this with a swing out cylinder, such a fun pistol for range day.

@SCVGun 4 ай бұрын

I’m a sucker for those old H&R’s. You may can date the manufacture by the serial number. There is a website that will do that. It’s also called a pull pin revolver because you pull the pin to load and unload. The pin usually can punch out spent shells. A cool revolver.

@GunsOfTheWest 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, the pin is great for punching them out.

@GunsandRadios 4 ай бұрын

I have that exact gun belonged to my uncle my son loves it

@GunsandRadios 4 ай бұрын

Funny story my son was shooting this gun and we were out on the Pawnee Grasslands. When he went to reload it he dropped the cylinder pin I spent a half hour crawling around on the ground looking for it. Lucky found it. My son is deadly with that thing. Shooting as a single action not double.

@mikereinhardt4807 4 ай бұрын

One thing, the cylinder pin is also used to clear empty brass out of the cylinder. In my safe I have a S&W 7 shot 22 S bird's head grip revolver that was my grandfather's back up gun when he was a special sheriff deputy for the county. Ideas of firepower were different back in the day. 😂...

@therideneverends1697 4 ай бұрын

Ive found a number of old revolvers ive bought where shaved to shoot high, i *think* the idea at the time was to make something where you could aim center mass and hit chest, atleast from talking to old timers that seems to have been a common idea

@zaxu 4 ай бұрын

Could you do a video on the pietta pepperbox?

@michael184272 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting and informative 😊

@doranmaxwell1755 4 ай бұрын

One thing is that I grew up with such guns. They were pretty good guns but us kids would have a variety of 22 pistols like maybe a Colt Woodsman or a High Standard or one lucky guy a K22. lately my buddy broke out a HR and I happened to have a High Standard Camp gun in 22/22 mag and just like 50 years ago the HR could not compete.

@lewisgreenway5065 4 ай бұрын

I would think it would be worth refinishing and new front sight fitted in honour of your grandmother.

@chrishibbard6433 2 ай бұрын

is the cylinder window a mistake you think? Seems pretty useless. Enjoying your channel, sir! I like to keep spent .22 cases in my .22 derringers to dry fire them...what do you think on that allowing dryfiring without harming the "blade" style firing pin? Nice revolver, love the 9-round capacity.

@squiblift2019 4 ай бұрын

I'd like to see what it would do against a carbonated bandit.

@DonaldWyman 4 ай бұрын

My kids inherited an H&R model 929 that looks a lot like that one but with a swing out cylinder and a little longer from my wife's stepdad.

@scottmccollough1642 4 ай бұрын

I stopped working on them 20 years ago because of the hand/spring combo.

@arthurfraner3957 4 ай бұрын

My 6” barreled 922 had a brass button on the front strap to pull the pin. Mfg in 1941

@mtslyh 4 ай бұрын

I have an H&R 622 which I inherited from my father in law. It is the same gun with a six shot cylinder. Your front sight looks like it has been filed down compared to mine which probably explains why it shoots high. I'd love to see you take yours out to the range and let the old girl show us what she's made of.

@matthewspencer972 4 ай бұрын

I can remember seeing either a magazine review, or a catalogue (my teenage years were somehow internet-free, despite having occasional access to a DEC-10) of this model (which was in production for very many years) and I think that on your example the front sight blade profile is a bit truncated, hence shooting high. It may be that, if it was actually your grandmother's carry pistol (and the wear pattern does suggest this) then she may have had the front sight filed or ground down a bit flat to make it easier to draw from a holster. Probably she knew just where to hold for a hit, but in any case a .22" carry gun is a close-range instinctive-aiming sort of thing. A 4" nine-shot .22" LR is a far better proposition than the sort of Haenel 6.35mm/.25" handbag pistol that was widely considered a proper self-defence gun for a lady (or 007!) back in the 20th century.

@dennisatkins9837 4 ай бұрын

I have a 9 shot High Standard 22.

@greggilliam1829 4 ай бұрын

I had one with a bull barrel and I let a friend talk me out of it it was a good gun

@ttoth7130 4 ай бұрын

Yes. Shoot it!

@BoomstickMark5 4 ай бұрын

I have 3 old H&R pistols. The 999 Sportsman. The 922 and a long bunt line model I can't remember the number of.

@robertbean8116 4 ай бұрын

That gate works just fine. You just need a bit of bailer wire to punch out the empties.

@robertbean8116 4 ай бұрын

I may have been wrong about that loading gate (notch). Although I know that many of the older h&r have functional loading notches, maybe yours is deliberately non functional. I have an old h&r XL 32 that's over 120 years old. It has an open notch that works OK unless I point it upward when the cylinder rotates , and the cartridge falls out. Simple fix is to smear ago of beeswax on the cartridges so they stay in the chamber. The original ammo for these guns back in the day would have been outside lubricated 'heeled' bullets which would have stuck nicely to the chamber wall. 22 rimfire ammo is still loaded with outside lubricated bullets, but sometime back around 1960 ammunition manufacturers introduced `dry lubrication `. My guess is that h&r started hearing complaints with loose rounds falling out of chambers and the quick fix would have been to make the notches smaller.

@jakewayrewa5201 4 ай бұрын

Show us how it shoots!

@steveferris663 4 ай бұрын

H&R and Iver Johnson made some great utilitarian guns in the 50s & 60s; but, got caught up in the Saturday Night Special fervor of the 70s … due to their low cost and Western Auto availability.Thank God High Standard survived a while longer ….

@maryvalentine9804 Ай бұрын

We have 1 just like yours just wondering the price nowadays????

@Cannontime 4 ай бұрын

Let’s see more!!!!!!

@tomlubas1512 4 ай бұрын

Gave you some wrong info. It IS a loading gate. I was convinced you needed a third hand to use it but I looked up videos on it and the guy had a gun a neighbor woman gave him to clean up so she could sell it. There was a wear line on the frame from the apparent constint use of it. He then showed how to load it & you just need to be slightly more coordinated than me and use the nose of the round to center the chamber in the slot. D'oh!

@ericsissenwein3601 4 ай бұрын

Of course you know that base pin was to be used to poke out the empty cases from the cylinder. Easy since you already have it in your hand. H&R ❤

@marktheaardvark7208 3 ай бұрын

I also inherited one of these, I’ve only used it twice, once to make sure it actually fired and then to teach my wife to shoot, Wasn’t interested in accuracy or anything like that, I just wanted to get her use to handling a firearm.