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Dirtfarmer,
Spectacular. Can you pass along the name of the engraver?? Thanks.

Larry Hopewell
Harper, TX 78631
830 864 5966

He's retired, but from what I heard, stays busy without advertising. All info is hearsay, never met the man.

DF

Super, thanks for the info DF.
Greg

Here are some more CAS pistols. The top is the set of New Vaqueros set up to run like Colts. They're short stroked and fast. The middle set is Colt Gen 3 in .357 with rosewood one piece grips. The botton set is Ruger Special Edition 38-40's tricked out to the max by the Ron Power company. I traded for them. No way I would have shelled out what it cost to buy that set and than have all that custom work done. Probably why you don't see many like tham. Someone had more scratch than sense, but at least I got them right.

BTW, one of the rosewood Colt grips was sent to Nutmeg as a template for the ivory grips shown earlier. I made the top two sets, obtained and installed the medallions and sent them to Errol Case at Case Custom Guns in Missouri for his carving/checkering. Errol does great work and is amazingly reasonable. Some guys spend as much for gaudy laser work, which is not period, or IMHO, not even attractive...

On the Rugers, notice how far back the trigger is set compared to a factory New Vaquero. In the second photo, observe how much shorter the Ruger hammer throw is compared to the Colt. Transfer bar is gone, the hammer notch is welded up. Now, they're no safer than a Colt...

DF

Nice pistolas.

I run a stable full of Colt SAA's: 4 first generation, 1 second generation and 2 3rd generation, in 38-40, 44-40 and 45 Colt. All with little regulation will easily shoot "MOR" better know as "Minute of Rabbit"...

Those older Colts just have character that the new ones can't hope to match. Seems you like the 7.5" bbls. I'm more into the shorter tubes, but like what I see in your post.

DF

I used to be that way until I started shooting these quite a bit. I shoot a lot of cowboy action and small game. You will find the 7 1/2 inch guns are more suited to shooting, the shorter barrels just look good...

Here are some views of the checkering/carving that Errol Case does. Check his web site. Note deep dish medallions on the Colt. The ponies face forward, both left and right. They are mirror images, unlike current production.

Ruger medallions can be purchased from Ruger and fitted with a Forstner bit.

Kind of a mongrel, but I like it. .44 Special
parts gun. Early frame.

The old .44 Special is a great caliber. It's super accurate and throws an impressive chunk of lead. Elmer Keith preferred it to the .45 LC and his work along those lines gave birth to the .44 Mag.

Your gun looks like a real shooter, and I'll bet it's accurate.

DF

Whoever did it, did a nice job on the trigger. I have had a couple of S&W revolvers and a Ruger, this Colt fits my hand the best of them all. It does shoot Ultramax 200 grn nicely, for me.

Gary

Here's my second gen 45 and a little brother; a Frontier Scout.

1882 44-40 Frontier Six Shooter

I'm amazed at the prices of 1st gen and 2nd gen Colts. Those have been better investments than gold over the past 20 years. And you can't shoot a Krugerrand...

DF