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USFA stopped the woodsman? I don't think they ever got one out the door......

Funny this thread came up. My mom in law just pulled one out of a drawer in her house. It was in a leather holster. She hasn't seen the thing in decades she said. She wasn't even sure whose it was. I clean it up and shot it. Quite a nice pistol.

I knew USFA was slated, never seen any, but never desired a 'Colt copy' w/o it actually being a Colt. Not that another brand might not be as good or better quality, it would always be brand XYZ.

Kinda like their single actions?

Like lots of other things, people always say they will buy X if they make it and then about 1 out of 1000 who say that actually do (maybe even less). This is the exact reason they don't make X gun in Y caliber when lots of people say they would buy one right up if they did.

I think it is very unlikely, I would even say the model 41's days are numbered as when the existing tooling goes so goes the pistol. The real issue however is the demise of bulls eye target shooting by the masses. sure there may be a few sanctioned matches but the participants can be numbered in the dozens not hundreds or even thousands.
For those of us north of 50 years old the shooting sports we grew up with have all but been abandoned. Just this week my buddy was saying he had stopped by Friendship Indiana and it was all but vacant. Not many years ago you couldn't get into that tiny town because of the traffic but frankly we were the young turks 15 years ago and now that we are crowding 60 the real players that were there are all in their 70's and 80's and just dont or cant go. I'm afraid that the traditional shooting sports are going the way of the dodo and carrier pigeon and the fine target guns like the match targets and the model 41's are not far behind. I watch these young guys at the range and frankly they have little concern about accuracy or their ability to shoot. Today 90% of them just seem to want to make noise and see if they can shred something with their ak's , sks's and ar platform rifles. The only remainder of traditional local target shooting I see are sporting clays and truthfully it is a pretty expensive endeavor. I'm afraid in another 15 or 20 years it will all be about gone. Just my $.02.

I almost bought one of those Colt Cadets (before the Cadet name and the gun itself) were dropped. I've always been curious just how accurate they were. Anyone know?