Iver Johnson What ?
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Topic: Iver Johnson What ?
Posted By: klallen
Subject: Iver Johnson What ?
Date Posted: 12 May 2023 at 18:28
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Evening BSB's. Up to fairly recently, the sum total of my Iver Johnson firearm knowledge consisted of an ancient revolver in .22lr that my dad always had with us when we went camping when I was a kid. And I'm sure the revovler predates that. Anyway, I never knew they did anything else. In late 2020, I was sifting through Gunbroker auctions and tripped across an Iver Johnson standard 1911 A1 .45acp. That was surprising so I did some digging. Evidently they'd been importing 1911's for some time. But this is what really grabbed me. At the 2017 Shot Show, they introduced a long-slide 10mm called the Eagle XL manufactured by SAM out of the Philippines. What isn't interesting about a 6" barreled 10mm. So I went searching and had mine headed home in late 2021.   I really like its features ... oversized beavertail / grip safety, skeletonized hammer and trigger, front and rear serrations, fully adjustable rear sight. I couldn't bring myself to switch out the wood grips it came with. The owl design looks kinda neat and the texturing gives plenty of purchase to hold onto the thing. It impressed me as offering a lot of features for coming in at just under 760$. It performed well with the standard handload I use in my other 10mm's, getting the 180 gr XTP moving along at 1340 fps. It's all steel construction makes it a heavy bugger but it makes the 10mm a pleasure to shoot. It's been a wonderful addition to the safe and world above the old revolver I thought Iver Johnson was all about. k ------------- A Big Mouth Don't Make A Big Man !!! The Duke |
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Posted By: d4570
Date Posted: 12 May 2023 at 20:31
DANG !!! ------------- Remember: Four boxes keep us free ,the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, AND the cartridge box |
Posted By: klallen
Date Posted: 12 May 2023 at 22:15
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Right? That was my initial thought when I first laid eye's on an Eagle XL. Second thought was, I hope it's not a 1400$ handgun. lol. k ------------- A Big Mouth Don't Make A Big Man !!! The Duke |
Posted By: d4570
Date Posted: 13 May 2023 at 08:50
I wish they were all $400 guns, I could get one after one over night shift, not 3 !  ------------- Remember: Four boxes keep us free ,the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, AND the cartridge box |
Posted By: BEAR
Date Posted: 13 May 2023 at 09:33
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Thoughts
on Iver Johmson Iver
Johnson was a
respectable name in American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm" rel="nofollow - - bicycle , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle" rel="nofollow - Most of its
guns were low end, revolvers (break tops) and pocket autos. There designs incorporated safety features,
and one of it motos for its revolvers was Hammer-the-Hammer transfer
bar safety. One model incorporated a key
lock in the bottom of the grip. I owned
a break top 22 and a single shot 12 ga, when I was young. Decent ruggedly built; but not enough quality
that I kept them. Unfortunately
they have a very poor place in history. 1) 1) On September 6, 1901, an anarchist shot and
killed President McKinley at the Temple of Music in Buffalo NY using an Iver
Johnson .32 Safety Automatic revolver (is currently on display at
the History Mueseum in Buffalo 2) 2) In1933,
Zangara shot and killed Chicago
mayor Cermak, in an apparent attempt to assassinate then president-elect FDR. Zangara was using a
.32 revolver by the US Revolver Company, a subsidiary of Iver Johnson. 3) 3) More recently (1968) Sirhan Sirhan assassinated
RF Kennedy with an eight-shot Iver
Johnson Cadet 55-A 22 revolver. I suspect,
the low cost was a big factor why they bad guys chose Iver Johnson. In 1967 I bought a 22 I used in a gun shop for
$15!!! Used it for snakes when fishing. As time went
on Iver Johnson, didn’t develop any new products, and the firearms industry
moved past them. They dissolved the
company in 1993. Totally
unrelated to the Iver Johnson Firearms Company, in 2006 a group called Squires
Bingham International, started using the name. They are importers bringing in guns made by
others in the Philippines, and Turkey.
I’ve not seen any of their guns nor the quality. Hope we get
a good review by kallen. If it came in
38 super, I’d pop for one. ------------- “ The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.” |
Posted By: klallen
Date Posted: 13 May 2023 at 11:49
Morning D. Me, too. I set up a plan a while ago. I have my Scheels cc set aside for firearm purchases. I buy something then I have to pay it off before I can get another. It costs me a little extra in finance charges per gun using a cc but not a lot paying it off quickly. Plus, I have the gun and am playing with it while I'm paying it off. Paying off the last gun show activities now and have the next few purchase ideas locked and loaded in my gunbroker watchlist. lol. Also, purchases can't affect finances for the family which come first ... that's how I keep the wife reluctantly signed on to the plan. Firearms (and handloading) really are my only vice at this point, so that helps. Guess I'm kind a boring that way  .Oh, the do BEAR. Their standard A1. There's several .38 Super's on gunbroker ready to be adopted as we speak. I can't speak for their other options but at this point, their Eagle XL has impressed. k ------------- A Big Mouth Don't Make A Big Man !!! The Duke |
Posted By: d4570
Date Posted: 13 May 2023 at 12:04
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Thats how I do it kinda too. I loan my self the $$$ and write a promissory note and pay it back with My side job as a security guard. When I get it payed off the wife signs the note and by then I have another toy in my sights. Right now I'm paying off my 4wheeler and 8 pounds of reloder 26... ------------- Remember: Four boxes keep us free ,the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, AND the cartridge box |