Jim Watson
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I was looking through a reprint 1900 Sears & Roebuck catalog and came up with one of those Internet Hypothetical Questions.
Let's say you wanted a .32 revolver for the usual reasons. But the $10 for a Smith & Wesson was out of reach and $11 for a Colt completely impossible. You could afford $3.75 for something nicer than the store brand solid frame pull pin jobs, the literal Two Dollar Pistols.
That $3.75 would get you your choice in top-break revolvers, Iver Johnson, Harrington & Richardson, Forehand & Wadsworth, and Hopkins & Allen.
The question is, which brand would be the best choice? Is there any reason to prefer one make of topbreak revolver over the others at the same price.
They didn't have the Internet to generate Instant Reputation, so what is known about the quality of those second line guns?
Let's say you wanted a .32 revolver for the usual reasons. But the $10 for a Smith & Wesson was out of reach and $11 for a Colt completely impossible. You could afford $3.75 for something nicer than the store brand solid frame pull pin jobs, the literal Two Dollar Pistols.
That $3.75 would get you your choice in top-break revolvers, Iver Johnson, Harrington & Richardson, Forehand & Wadsworth, and Hopkins & Allen.
The question is, which brand would be the best choice? Is there any reason to prefer one make of topbreak revolver over the others at the same price.
They didn't have the Internet to generate Instant Reputation, so what is known about the quality of those second line guns?