1889 Colt Navy (1903)






Colt Army Special (1922)

Police Positive (1935)





44 sp 3rd

Thats a dandy Don

My great grandpap's Sheriff gun

Can't make out the caliber, is it a thunderer, lightning, or rainmaker?

thunderer

1892 Army





New Service .45 (1927)

.32 first issue

My contribution -- .45 Colt New Frontier. Too bad it didn't shoot as well as it looked.

148 years apart, oldest to newest. 7 different calibers, I like Colts.

For a shooter, I like the Officers Model Target. In the days when the revolver was King of the Matches, the Officer's models were always the favorite of the champions and Colt's held all the records. Extensive honing and tuning, with over 200 visual and micrometer checks.

Beautiful!

Some fine pieces there!!! Very enjoyable to see these older firearms.

Me too. Picked this one up dirt cheap as it had been hard chromed. Smooth as glass, dead tight on lock up and wonderfully accurate.

Colts aren't worth spit unless you shoot something with them...

4 inch nickel Python...



Colt 357 Pre-Trooper...

I would have, but mine shot patterns, not groups......

I have taken squirrels with the Match Target around the place in Idaho, I just don't take pictures of everything I shoot.

First generation SAA in 44-40...

EdM, those look like Fuzzy Farrant grips----if so, they're worth more than the gun and quite a find!!

1911 Comercial Model Circ. 1926...

Nice collection there!!! I even like the "Colt" model 39-2 at the bottom

Only have one photo of one of my Colt's, and it's a semi-crappy cell phone pic. Took a 100 year anniversary 1991 in .38 super, Nitre blued various parts, swapped out the plastic, added elephant ivory grips with Colt's medallions. I didn't like the 3 dot sights so I made a new rear sight for it.



Here's a cell phone pic of the home made rear sight

First Generation Bisley in 38-40...

Texas Colts:



Gunfighter's rig:


San Antonio PD Colt:


380:


Army Special 32WCF:


Officers Model Target:
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Lightning 38 Colt:
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Police Positive Targets, 32 & 22:
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PP Target 22WRF:
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MORE:

1st Generation SAA 32WCF:




Woodsmans:



Detective Special:
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Colt Agent:
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1916 1911:
[img]http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x157/hhclark/colt1911-L1.jpg[/img]
Commander:
[img]http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x157/hhclark/ColtLWCommander38Super-L.jpg[/img]

For just the pure joy of shooting, those .32 target revolvers are just magnificent!!

Had a .32 Long Police Positive for a short time. Picked up an RCBS 98 grain full wadcutter mold, and used that bullet over about 2 grains of Bullseye...what an absolute joy to shoot. Light recoil, very well balanced revolver for such a petit gun, and OMG did she shoot. Just little ragged one hole groups all day long. Pretty much everyone who picked that revolver up turned in their best groups of the day.

The .32 WCF's just took off where the Long left and made the .32 much more practical. My grandfather drove armored cars for Loomis back in the '30's and his choice was a S&W in .32-20. He liked it because he was just uber-confident with his. He said he could hit a beer bottle at 100 yards all day long, and he pretty much could.

One day I'm at church and a gentleman who was about 20 years older than I started telling me about his dad's .32 Police Positive. Seems his dad was LE for the railroad from the mid '30's to sometime around 1960, and he carried a .32 Long Police Positive. Sometime around the '80's one of his grand kids stole his revolver to buy drugs and he always wanted to replace that revolver.

I ended up selling my PP and the dies for about $50.00 less than what I had into it, with the condition that I get to be there when he gives it to dad. It was worth the $50.00 price of admission.

I always figured I'd just get another and I didn't get around to it I seriously need to get around to it some day.

Now that's just a man with very good taste in handguns.

How about some unusual Colt's, Lightnings and a model 1878 Colt SXS...

Show off....

Had 6 of those 1878 SxS actions with buttstocks and forends but no barrels come in at the shop one day. They'd been in a basement that flooded and were all rusty and the wood was swollen and moldy. I think the guy that brought them in just gave them to us. We parted them out and sold off the bits and pieces for a penance but I did keep a buttplate for my collection.

Why the guy had 6 of them and where the barrels went I'll probably never know. The things you see in a gunshop.

Awesome fellas


Official police (1929)

In action

Another Colt Lightning SRC in 44-40...

Some awesome stuff here... Thanks for the show...

Texas Swamp, you got a born date on the Gunfighter's sawed off?

Gotta love all the Colt's!

1911...

Blue...

That's just a PROPER Diamondback. Not a safe queen, but a well used (not abused) revolver with grips worn smooth in places, now educating and entertaining the next generation. The Diamondback is one of the finest .22lr's ever made. FAR too many of those are safe queens. God bless you for not making yours a safe queen. NICE revolver dood!!!

Thanks. My wife picked that one from her grandfather's collection when he passed. There's also a 4" Python that her father has, that we'll eventually get, that has nearly identical wear.

Looks like it's had a hard life, but that's still a damn good, and cool 1911. I like the sights and the grip safety. But the safety doesn't look all that special (that's a Fallbrook Swenson).

Awesome!!

I've been passively looking for a 7 shot 686 4" to go along with the 617. Kinda the current day version of what you have, but nowhere near as cool.

It's a Swenson safety. The Colt in the pic is on "long term loan" to me from a very dear friend. The Colt was his father's sidearm many years ago, and the "hard life" is from Dad not getting all the solvent off the factory nickel finish in time.

Good Lord does this thing shoot.

Oh, and my wife had claimed it as her night stand gun. I'm smart enough not to argue.

Your wife has good taste... in guns...

Have never owned a Colt, have to fix that..

Can't forget Colt made many things that worked well.

And that they are, from a local San Antonio GS junk box. $15...

I got this 1920 Colt at a pawn shop with incorrect grips.
Some forum tells me those are Sambar grips. Don't beat those up.


I got this 1948 Colt at a pawn shop with incorrect grips.
Some forum tells me those are Python grips and don't beat them up. So I bought some old plastic grips on Ebay for $5 +$6 shipping. Then some forum tells me that those are Franzite grips, don't beat those up.

The latest, a .38 Super LW Commander



Dad's old Combat Commander



my Combat Elite



A .44 Special New Frontier, Skeeter's favorite, which I chased for 20 years. And don't miss.



A LW Commander, that I converted to a 9mm:

A compact Colt...

Various grips...





Buffalo Bone, probably the best looking grips I have...









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When I was a kid, I went to the butcher's and got free beef shoulder bone and made arrowheads. You never forget the smell of working bone.

You have a great collection of Colts, and that buffalo bone is awesome !
Ronnie

A couple more

This one went to Iraq with me, first time around.
Bob


1st Gen SAA from 1903, rebuilt by Eddie Janis. Barrel and cylinder are 2nd Gen in .38 Special.


Colt 1911 Repro. I added a set of Hogue double-diamond walnut stocks. Mucho better.