1. Old C 33. I got this from a retired lieutenant of the South Bend police force in 1968. As a rookie cop he had taken it off a cabbie in the 1930s, accurized it and shot it in competition. He'd had Colt refinish it a couple of times, the last one it came back with their Dual-Tone finish. I shot it for two years on the Army Air Defense Command pistol team; we were issued ECS 43 steel case ammo and it must have shot at least 10,000 rounds of it. Steel case is hard on extractors and I remember replacing broken extractors at least twice. I don't shoot it much anymore: I get a severe case of hammer bite from it.
2. Colt Super 38, second year of production.
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