BLACKHAWKNJ
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The Trooper-especially in 357-is one of the great underappreciated revolvers IMHO.
4" Colt Trooper (.38 Spl).
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Since we're talking "Old Colts" here's my oldest; a US Army Model 1901. Unfortunately its been re-blued somewhere along its way:
There are 3 more digits to the serial number; when I originally posted the photo of the gun's s/n I was concerned about showing the complete s/n...
Very very nice.
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I like my colts. The thing that hurts them is the fact that not many people are left that knows how to work on them plus the conception that they go out of time fast. That one is overblown, however its said that they do need maintance sooner than smiths do.
I mostly carried colts for my 35 years. We were issued 4" offical polices that I belive were bought durring the korean war to arm the lockheed guard department. I took to carrying a 4" .357 trooper I bought new for $108s around 1970. I put service grips on it so it looked like our company guns in the holster. I quit doing that to keep my chief out of trouble when another gun savey guard ratted me off. Its the same one I shot that buck with thats shown earlier on this old thread. I always thought it was colts answer to smiths model 19. In my experiance I used to find colts gave me a little better accuracy shooting them off the bench as opposed to smiths, and I have had plenty of each. I still have two pythons and these two troopers. The blue one is a .22lr and I bought the nickle one from a well known guy here. Thanks allen! I am showing them along side my m&p. About the same size.
I mostly carried colts for my 35 years. We were issued 4" offical polices that I belive were bought durring the korean war to arm the lockheed guard department. I took to carrying a 4" .357 trooper I bought new for $108s around 1970. I put service grips on it so it looked like our company guns in the holster. I quit doing that to keep my chief out of trouble when another gun savey guard ratted me off. Its the same one I shot that buck with thats shown earlier on this old thread. I always thought it was colts answer to smiths model 19. In my experiance I used to find colts gave me a little better accuracy shooting them off the bench as opposed to smiths, and I have had plenty of each. I still have two pythons and these two troopers. The blue one is a .22lr and I bought the nickle one from a well known guy here. Thanks allen! I am showing them along side my m&p. About the same size.
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