I know some of you like the old DA Colt revolvers, here is one I picked up on GB last week. A very nice 4" Police Positive in around 98% condition. This one dates to 1924.

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Congrats, looks very nice...

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Jorge

I really like those old Colts.

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LEO (Ret.)

Man...THAT is a very nice Colt.
I have the bug to but clean ones are difficult to find.
Here is a 1968 Police Positive Special and a 1962 Official Police.

Nice looking, for sure.
TACC1

I know what you mean, hard to believe a revolver can be around
for 89 years in this condition. Your PPS and OP are real beauties.
The PPS and PP are my latest revolver obsession. I've purchased 5 of
them in the last year. Prices are not as high as other Colt DA
revolvers yet, so bargins can still be found.

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Man, thats a mint example. It must have spent it's life in storage.
Congradulations.

Very nice example.
I too have a 98+% example from 1921.

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Memory of Randy Freas-Rimfired

WOW! Muddyboot, that's a gem! I have one too, but NOTHING like that! Take good care of her...I envy you.

Thanks, I still haven't been able to bring myself to shoot it, she's to pretty.

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That is why I like the 85-90% guns. I can shoot them with no remorse at all. I have always been more of a accumulator than a collector.

In my younger days, I had a 1921 year in nickle plate. The plating was in poor shape in most areas such as the front of the cylinder and both ends of the barrel. I shot the hell out of it, then sold it in favor of a 5906, just so I could have an automatic like my friends. I sure do miss that pistol...it was a great shooter.

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My yard sale Colt PP (1928)
Dick

Note that Mickey's is a Police Positive SPECIAL, with longer frame and taking .38 Special ctgs., not .38 shorts.

I think Colt called their version of the .38 S&W the .38 Colt New Police, or some such. The rounds are the same, really.

Look at the barrel in the bottom photo. See that Colt left the forcing cone fully round, not with a flat there, like weakens the barrel on S&W K-frame .357's.They used the available space well. The PPS was rated to use high velocity ammo, although I'm sure that Colt didn't intend it as a steady diet.

I'm going by claims in the catalogs of the 1930's-on; not sure if earlier guns had the metallurgy for that. After all, until 1930, there WAS no hi-vel .38 Special ammo.

As a teen, I owned a 1907-made PPS. It looked just like Mickey's, gutta percha stocks and all.

Decent shooters, those PP/PPS revolvers.