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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
I grew up with one that looked identical. A crazy old lady my folks checked in on once in a while, who also ran a kennel, asked my dad to put down some runts and handed him this gun. She was a nutcase, but insisted she needed it to scare away bad guys. My dad took it and gave her a bolt action 20 ga. shotgun in return. That pistol hung on the wall under his 1866 Winchester until they sold that house a few yrs. ago. I need to find out what he did with it. It was a great shooter, but the ammo (.41 IIRC) didn't grow on trees.
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That .41 Long Colt revolver would have made a mess of putting down the runts! Not that it would not kill them, but there would be lots of cleaning up to do afterwards! The .41 Long Colt ammo did get very scarce for a while. However, there are several companies that are making it again mostly because of the Cowboy Action Shooting events. It would be worth your time to try to chase that old Colt down! I have an original Colt Lightning (same gun but in .38 Long Colt) that is lot's of fun to shoot.