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Picked it up yesterday. Made in 1921. Smooth as butter, action's like a little bank vault and the picture does not do it justice. Test fired one magazine full and fed and fired flawlessly. Very pleased..

Will you be able to run regular high speed ammo through it?

Just wondering, I've heard that some will not handle it.


Nice looking pistola by the way.

What a sweetheart that one is. I inherited a 1923, perfect bore and tight as you could wish, but what a hard life it's had. It went on the hip of a land surveyor for 45 years, seen more of Nevada than Kit Carson. I have a retired cop friend, and he shot it for me ( I am a dismal pistolero) with sorted Winchester T-22 and after a few shots to 'learn the trigger' put a magazine full into roughly a group the size of a silver dollar at 25 yards, handed it back to me and said,"You ever wanna sell it, let me know."

only if it has the hi-speed mainspring installed The checkered MS housing is for SV only. The lined/serrated is for high vel.

I was told by an expert to use standard velocity. hunts, what about the serrations?

Beautiful pistol Jorge, great find.

OMG you're going to have fun with that one!!! Nice find.

The pattern was changed in early 1933. Easy way to remember which is which - Horizontal lines = High Velocity OK.




Colt made a kit to retrofit earlier guns for Hi Vel ammo consisting of a heavier Main spring and heat treated M.S. Housing.

Lovely pistol, Jorge.

Those .22 boxes take me back to the late 60's/early 70's, Super-X were the good stuff, Canuck were cheap garbage (at least that is what we thought at the time); all came from the local OTASCO or APCO station. Jack rabbits, bullfrogs and crows were in abundance. Life was better than we knew.

Mine has the one on the left. Thankfully, I have plenty of std velocity ammo. Thank you.

That is a great find, good luck with it.

What a great score, Jorge!

I really dig the bead-sighted first series pistols, but the longer trigger on the early ones just fit me better. So much so, that I swapped triggers on few to make them suit me....

To pair with Jorge's as we feed off of each others rimfire addiction. A 1964 Targetsman I picked up last week.

Congratulations you’ll love that one - the one I have is amazingly accurate......much more accurate than I can hold or see anymore. A wonderful period piece!

PennDog

Can anyone shed some light regarding magazine variances (if any) in the Colt? I'm looking to purchase a second mag and I want to make sure.

Seems all Colt magazines for the woodsman series are kind of rare and expensive. There is a tutorial at rimfirecentral on how to modify one from a Beretta Neos magazine. I made one for my 1975 huntsman that works great.
$30 for the magazine and 30 minutes work. Not as pretty as the original but functional. On the second series pistols you have to cut a slot for the mag release.
Something to think about and it might work for you.

Here is a couple of pictures.

Pugs and I shoot together fairly frequently and it would seem that we both have similar tastes (and share a .22 addiction). He, and now Jorge, has caused me to spend too much time scouring the gun sites for an early 6" Woodsman to go with my 1st series 4". Darn it, I gotta buy another .22 pistol. Drat!

The second, and third series woodsman mags, along with the modded Neos mags will NOT work in a first series. Any first series mag will work in the prewoodsman regardless of bottom stamp on the mag. Triple K also makes a replacement, but more than likely will need tweaked to work as they are kind of junky.....