single action colt fans...

[id10t]

Colts Colts Colts for sale! HO HO HO! (pic heavy) - also cross posted now - The FAL Files

Caught my attention due to the pair with consecutive serials. Not my cup of tea, and way out of my budget, but I know a few here like the old SAA

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Colt SAAs and .357 Magnum taken separately are the bee's knees and the cat's pajamas, respectively. Put them together and the result is something more like heresy.

[Bill Douglas]

I'm always surprised how fast and accurate guys are with single action revolvers. Youtube CAS shooting to see how good some guys are.

[berettafan]

kinda sad to see a guy letting guns with character go for something like an AR.

I really like my AR but to me one is enough. the remainder of the firearm budget should be spent on beautiful guns.

[targa911S]

Higgins!!!!

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by berettafan

I really like my AR but to me one is enough. the remainder of the firearm budget should be spent on beautiful guns.

My words EXACTLY. ...And not just beautiful guns, but classics and antiques that can be passed down. One AR is plenty for killing zombies

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by targa911S

Higgins!!!!

What? You talkin' to me?

[ficke]

Yeah Higgins!
I opened this thread wanting to see pictures and stories of SAA's
Here is one of mine, and the story is my great grandfather bought it to chase Poncho Villa in 1904, never did anything except ride around. Then he threw in a desk drawer till he gave it to my grandfather who played around (got in trouble, shot the floor of the Congress Hotel drunk one night) a little in Tucson Az in the 30's with it, then it was parked again till I got it. I sent away for the letter from Colt which confirmed the ship date and where it was Bought.

[onlycafe]

classy pieces there gentlemen.

[Bill Douglas]

Cool story Ficke.

My great grandfather was a bank manager and used to answer the door with a colt revolver in his hand. My grandfather was a bank manager too and kept a revolver in his desk at work. As a little boy I'd said the 1960's version of WTF and he said "nobody's gonna rob my bank."

[ficke]

I am glad you are enjoying the pistols, Here is another old Colt SA, a Cap and ball ( how many people who say they are going to put a "cap in his XXXX" even know where that came from?) model 1860. This is a interesting pistol because it was made in the first year of production 1860 and is a civilian model with fluted chambers. It was found by a orange farmer in Scottsdale AZ when Scottsdale was a farm town, he was cutting irrigation troughs with his tractor when this turned up out of the dirt in the mid 1940's. It had two chambers still loaded that were opposite of each other. He saw my dad playing cowboys and indians across the street from his orchard and gave it to him and I got it from my dad.

[Jeff Higgins]

Very cool Colts, and even cooler stories, ficke. I love that stuff.

None of mine that I've had over the years ever had any known history. Now, as a result of their rising values, all of my older ones are gone. No more first or second generation guns. The three shown above are all new third generation, like new in the last few years. When I started seeing just how nice they were turning out with Turnbull doing the finish work, I started buying brand new ones. I guess I'll have to start making my own "history" with them.

I did hang onto one "older" Peacemaker, a new third gen I bought in the early '80's. Not worth much to anyone but me, it hails from those "dark years" at Colt; I had to completely disassemble it, polish and stone everything, and give it a real good tune-up before it was even usable. It was by far the best shooter of my old bunch, though, as it actually has matching chamber dimensions (pretty rare in those days). Once I got it "working", it turned into my near constant companion out woods bumming, mountain loafing, hunting, and sometimes even going out on the town. It's now killed mule deer, antelope, black bear, coyotes, rock chucks, grouse, and on and on. So, maybe if we can hang onto these things for a few more generations, my own grand kids will have stories to tell about grandpa's old Colt.

Here it is, really not all that much worse for wear and tear:



Its favorite load is the old RCBS .45-255 SWC, or the newer RCBS .45-270 SAA cast from wheel weights and lubed with SPG, seated over 16.5 grains of 2400 lit by a CCI standard large pistol primer. Velocity is just a hair under 1,000 fps; I've never recovered one from a dead animal - they always exit. (Who needs some new-fangled .44 mag?)

The new 7 1/2" is destined to be the new hunting revolver. In it, a firmly compressed load of a full 40 grains of Goex FFFg sends the Lyman 452664 (about 260 grains) downrange at over 900 fps. And it shoots right to the sights at 50 yards - when is the last time you saw a Colt do that right out of the box?

[onlycafe]

i had to go searching through my "old computer" pictures to find this.



pay no attention to those old corroded .45s. they're just there for atmosphere.

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by onlycafe

i had to go searching through my "old computer" pictures to find this.



pay no attention to those old corroded .45s. they're just there for atmosphere.

Meh, you don't need 'em. The gun is already loaded, and properly, too. Empty chamber under the hammer. Besides, as a "Frontier Six Shooter", it would be a .44-40; those old corroded .45 Colts wouldn't fit.

I used to shoot a lot of .44-40's. In the end, I gave it up because they are so much more work to put together than .45 Colt loads.

[ficke]

Very Cool Jeff! Nothing has a natural point and feel like a single action colt. Yes, you are making the history with your guns.
Onlycafe, 44-40 great caliber for pistol and Winchester combo.
Here is an old model 94 Winchester of mine in 30 WCF or as known today as 30-30 Winchester this was made in 1897 and the story with this one is one day while visting my father (parents devorced while I was young and my dad in the air force, traviling)we had a knock on his door ( I was 14) by a drunk neighbor who held this rifle by the barrel and thrust it at my father and said "do you want this" my dad said sure and the drunk neighbor turned to his wife with baby in arms and said "there you happy now" later my dad asked this casual friend neighbor what was happing , the neighbor said "my great grand father bought that rifle at the turn of the century and took my grand father hunting with it in these woods then my grand father took my dad hunting in these woods with that rifle and my dad took me hunting in these woods with that rifle and I wanted to take my son hunting in these woods with that rifle but my wife said that now that we have a baby no guns in the house, the rifle are me so it has to go, but it is a priceless family heirlume.So my dad says "how much do you want for it" the guy says did you not here what I said it is a pricless family heirloom, so my dad asks if he wants it back and he says did you not understand what I just told you, my wife will leave me if I keep that rifle in the house. So I have it now 38 years later.

[Craig T]

If you get bored with that old 94 let me know. I'll make a nice offer

[ficke]

Originally Posted by Craig T

If you get bored with that old 94 let me know. I'll make a nice offer

Thanks Craig, I am pretty much done with selling, I have a few I sold that I sort of regret selling now, like this 1928AC Thompson, Arsenal refinished but still had a #'s matching upper and lower.
It had nice story to, it was used in the Pacific theater and got tore up pretty bad, bad enough that it was traded back to Auto-Ordnance, who did the refurbishing. During the war (WWII) manufacturers could not sell new guns to the police etc. but could sell used guns. Since this was refurbished, Auto-Ordnance was able to sell it to a police department during the war. Years later a dealer traded a MP5 for it and sold it to a collector who I bought it from. The way I was able to buy it as a young family man on a mechanics wages was I told my wife it is for our two year olds sons college fund, well when he went to college even though he had a scholarship I kept my promise and sold it (and bought a Porsche 67S)