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A Man of Wealth and Taste
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The thing about the Colt Calvary issued SAA's is that they were shipped in 50 gun wooden box lots to the various Calvary Regiments....thus if you have a known 7Th gun you can extrapolate the serial numbers up and down that 50 gun lot and can roughly determine if it was a 7TH gun. The same can be said if one is known to have been in another regiment. So that narrows the field a bit. Some @ 700 SAA's were issued as were 700 Trapdoor Carbines. The regiment had a strength at the Big Horn of 650 men, 260 were rubbed out, with about 210 being with Custer. Then there were scouts and other assorted Packers attached to the regiment.
Then various individuals carried their own weapons...Custer a Webley Bulldog and Remington Rolling Block. Captain French a 2ND Allin Conversion Trapdoor in 50/70.
I used to be able to tell you which SN ranges were likely to be Custer range SAA's
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