Got this last week 1971 Colt trooper mk3 357mag. I hope to fire it this week

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Nice pick up. Here's mine. image.jpg

Cool score!

I don't see too many early ones shown. I believe Colt started the MkIII line in '69.

I had a '75 Trooper MkIII that I got with the intended use as a shooter in place of my '75 Python. Well, the Python put the Trooper to shame, and my love of the Colt V spring revolver, especially the Python was born. I quickly realized life's too short not to enjoy fine guns, so the Python was just used like intended and the Trooper was sold.

I hope you got a fine shooter in yours. Best of luck.

I picked up a 6" Trooper Mark III a few months ago. I like it!
I'd buy a 4" to go with it if I could find one at a reasonable price.

That's a fine looking Colt Trooper M-III .357 Mag. revolver. Congrats.

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They're not that badly priced. Can usually find them for around $700-$900 in great condition.

However, for that price, I can think of a few S&Ws I would rather have. Although the Troopers had nice polish jobs and were well built. Just wasn't a fan of the cheapened down action & parts. Despite my personal opinion, there are many other opinions that the MkIII Troopers are tanks.

That is a nice example. I bought a new 6" MKIII in the early '70s. I recall it was nicely finished, very accurate, had a good SA trigger, but the DA was smooth but very heavy. Nice guns in any case.

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Very nice gun you found there! I been looking at one in nickel with 6 inch barrel that is absolutely pristine. The pawn shop has it priced at $1995.00. I told him I would be at about half that price. He quickly put it back and said I will come down but not that much. Unfortunately his starting price is just too high to be reasonable. If he started at near $1500 and came down a few hundred that would be reasonable. For now I guess it's just gonna sit in the glass cabinet. Nobody is gonna pay that price. The op's gun looks in very nice shape also. Enjoy that gun!

Very nice! I have its twin -





I was told to never dry fire it without snap caps. The firing pin is liable to move forward in its bushing and there is only one tool capable of returning it to its rightful place, and that is guarded by trolls under a bridge in Connecticut somewhere.



Now you need a leisure suit and some green tinted shooting glasses, and you are ready to blaze away.

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daddio202 that shop has a new looking nickel 4 inch trooper mk3 fo 1500 and they will come down.

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I also have a 6inch 1966 trooper. but the shooter is my 1961 colt357.

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One definitely does not want to dry fire any Colt having the firing pin in the frame. Most Colt fanciers are aware of that. Never had the Mk III Trooper (too new for me), but I have several of the earlier Troopers in .357.

That's nice. In spite of what "everyone" on the internet says, I liked the MK III Colts. I've never owned a Trooper, but have had a couple of the Official Police 38's. They shot great and to my eye looked great.

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Same opinion on the Colt OP.

The OP, .357, Trooper, and Python (and a few other Colts) are basically the same gun. Those in .357 have the in-frame firing pin.

Trooper MK III and Python have different gutts

Official Police and Pythons are basically the same gun

The Trooper MK III is a great gun. Colts version of an L frame before the L frame came out. I was issued one way back when and carried it for several years with absolutly no problems and later carried a Border Patrolman, which is a less finished clone of the Trooper MKIII. The cylinder rotating to the right can take some getting use to. I think they have rifleing that twisted to the right that automatically keeps the barrel tight when shot. Also the cylinder slot is in a little thicker part of the cylinder wall making it stronger.

Or, if you have the uniform, you can be just like T.J. Hooker.

The early Troopers ('53 to '69) in .38 Special and .357 are pretty much identical to the .357 and the Officer's Model. The Trooper .357 replaced the .357. Later Troopers (MKIII) are built on a different frame and there is no interchangeability with the early Troopers.

They keep finding me -- I am up to 3; well, one for each of my sons and one for me. They are fine firearms.

One of the first if not the first production firearms to use 'sintered metal' small parts,,very similar to the MIM parts on many of todays production firearms.

They got a bad name then too.. The technology has no doubt advanced much since the MkIII's intro.
The trigger, hammer and many of the internal parts of the MkIII are sinterered metal production parts. Part of the overall design change to save money & time in production and cut any hand fitting from the assembly.
There have been broken hammers and a few triggers around on the MkIII's. But they've overall held up pretty well considering the age of them now.. The trigger spring (torsion) can break more often than you'd like to see, but the rest of the springs hold up well, all coil or torsion wire.

There are tanks that are not very good...

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I guess he feels having that gun in his showcase is some sort of "badge" or distinction. There are a lot of starting prices that are too high to be reasonable. Never saw so many folks who hated a nickel because it wasn't a dime!

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The trooper is a fine looking gun.....but I don’t shoot it. Use to shoot the python until I had it refinished. Now I stick to my 586 while the others sit looking pretty.n


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