Harvey K Chuck

I'm trying to gather some info on the 22 K-Chuck. Does anybody have one or know much about it. I found a little info in an older cartridges of the world and one web page with 2 loads listed. Also a tid bit about the gunsmith, but nothing really in depth. I have drawings of the cartridge in a conversion book, but no referances.

Thanks for any help.

just checked Loaddata.com for you and they aint got nothin on that one. I've never heard of it, what do you know about it?

got me there Dale.....

Tigger, I had a gun smith ream out a .22 K-frame cylinder for the 22KayChuck. This round was originally made by Jim Harvy which is a shortened K-Hornet so the loaded round would fit in the S&W K-frame cylinder. The great Al Georg used this round with great sucess taking game from varmints,seals,crow and even a black bear.There were two versions which were the shortened
K-Hornet and the standard which was simply a shortened 22Hornet
shell.I have a .22 caliber 8 3/8" barrel and the reamed cylinder fitted to a K-38 frame and my goal was to exceed 22mag rim fire
velocities.The following velocities were chronographed on May 1st
of 2004: 35gr V-max 8.0grs 2400 1658fps average for 6 shots.The
ES was 136

35gr V-max 9.0grs 2400 1754fps average for 4 shots.The
ES was only 39.
As you can see I exceeded my goal of topping the 22 rim fire mag by quite a bit.Using CCI 40gr JHP ammo from a 6" S&W I averaged
1402FPS for 6 shots so my top Kay Chuck load beat that by 352FPS.
I have quite a bit of information on this round that was taken from the scores of old gun magazines that I went through.Give me a little time to scan these articles and I will e-mail them to you. PM me your e-mail address. Its a fasinating 22 caliber high speed round that was made to be fired from a revolver and after its introduction there were other gunsmiths who made their own version of the Kay-Chuck. The 22 Snapper comes to mind which is almost the same round ,however, they also made a 22 Snapper Short to fit the cylinders of J-frame S&W`s.Its because of these
wildcats that S&W produced their short lived 22 Jet that was cancelled because of case set-back which,by the way, I never experienced with my 22 KC even with the hottest loads. James
PS when I asked for info on this round on a well known reloading
web site there was only one reply from a mid-western fellow who uses it for coyote hunting....