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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..
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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.
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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."
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Will you be able to run regular high speed ammo through it?. only if it has the hi-speed mainspring installed The checkered MS housing is for SV only. The lined/serrated is for high vel.
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Will you be able to run regular high speed ammo through it?. 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?
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Beautiful pistol Jorge, great find.
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OMG you're going to have fun with that one!!! Nice find.
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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.
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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.
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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. Mine has the one on the left. Thankfully, I have plenty of std velocity ammo. Thank you.
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That is a great find, good luck with it.
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What a great score, Jorge!
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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....
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To pair with Jorge's as we feed off of each others rimfire addiction. A 1964 Targetsman I picked up last week.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Here is a couple of pictures.
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To pair with Jorge's as we feed off of each others rimfire addiction. A 1964 Targetsman I picked up last week. 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!
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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.....
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