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This review came together accidentally. I originally picked this up from my father-in-law who found it in like an attic of a house that he bought. He said you want this? I said sure. Then I realized it was in 38 Smith & Wesson. They also make a very similar revolver in 32 Smith & Wesson. But the reason it came together accidentally is because I was at Cabela's. I saw 38, a box of 38 for 23 bucks. I thought I was getting a deal with 38 special. Later I looked it was 38 Smith & Wesson. So I'm not the sharpest knife in the collection but nonetheless it gave me a chance to take out this. You may notice it has tape around the grip. When I got it it had no grip so I have electrical tape here. It actually looks like the original with the black grip. But a three and a half inch barrel the sights are minimal. You can see that I barely hit, I'm only about seven yards away. I barely hit the target I think two out of five. That rear sight is really thin. It does have a ramped up front sight. This was produced most likely in the late 1800's early 19th century. I believe it went from 1895 to 1908 when this model was produced. You don't see break open or break top revolvers much anymore. They said, Ivor Johnson said that this was among the safest revolvers at the time and the reason being is because it has a transfer bar safety. That was modern technology back in the day. It will go into single action when I first shot it I had a glove on because I wasn't sure what to expect and I couldn't even get my finger in there to, you can see how small that trigger guard is, I couldn't even get my finger in there so I carefully shot it and found out that this actually shoots pretty well for such an old revolver. When I first got it I had it cleaned up a little bit and you know it is what it is. Now through my research some people you know it was said that these are worth a lot of money. Other people or other places on the forums say it's worth hardly anything. I have to believe it's worth hardly anything but it does work so I'm going to load it up and see if I can shoot this a little better I'll try two handed you know it does lock up pretty well and then when you break it open you know of course there's there's you know you got the timing hand and the firing pin and the bolt stop but you know it's just a it's a pretty cool nostalgic revolver that was produced by Ivor Johnson they also produced bicycles and machine parts and things like that. 38 Smith and Lesson will take the first one in single action I'm actually holding at six o'clock my first couple shots last time were really high the sights are minimal I'll go single action again all right six o'clock whole double action there we go check that out once again break it open extracting arm lifts the shells up you can remove them manually or just drop them and then when you continue to open it it drops entirely and that's how you load it all right I backed up to approximately 10 yards we're trying again once again a very low hold on the revolver these minimal sights let me go ahead I'm gonna do a six o'clock hold double action heavy double action pull here and there it is now one of the greatest benefits of having a YouTube channel is the feedback from educated viewers and I actually learn a lot if you know much about this please leave comments so I could learn more about this I read up on it prior to this I tried to study it but there's not a lot of information out there not much at all actually but it's a it's a cool little revolver and I will mention the 38 Smith and Wesson is a much softer shooting round than the 38 special not that the 38 specials much I fully realize that but the 38 Smith of Wesson well you can even look at the case there you can see it's much smaller so there it is also how do you like my tape job around the grip heavy double action trigger pull and then single action is not bad I would say about seven pounds but there it is Iver Johnson break top 38 Smith and Wesson revolver first time I got it out I've owned it for about eight years now and I accidentally picked up that ammo and now I got to review it and have some fun shooting it if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe