Any Colt New Service Fans Out There Besides Me And Gizamo?

[DCWilson]

How did I overlook this thread when it started? I am a big fan of the large-frame (or should I say huge frame?) Colt NS even though I don't have a wide variety of them. I do have two nice 1917s, but I need some in other calibers as well.

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk176/DCW1000/Colts/1917 US Army/Colt1917Rauction_image.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk176/DCW1000/Colts/1917 US Army/206577/IMG_2789.jpg

The second one looks unfired to me, but I guess it could just be well cared for over the decades.

 

[alwslate]

I just have one, a pretty decent 1917 model. I saw a pretty nice one
in 44/40 with a 4 or 4 1/2 inch barrel at a good price at a gun show but
didn't grab it and have regretted it ever since.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Here's a friend shooting my 2 1/2" 1917 in the Mojave Desert. This gun did pretty good lobbing bullets into, or mostly very close to distant targets like 8" diameter rocks by adjusting the dust from the previous shot, Elmer Keith style. For me "distant" was about forty yards in this case.

 

[Muddyboot]

I have a couple of 1917's.

 

[Toyman]

A New Service 4 1/2 inch barrel in 38/40 caliber shipped October 1902

 

[policerevolvercollector]

The New Service was very popular with law enforcement too:

Royal Northwest Mounted Police .455 Eley (1914):



Androscoggon County Maine Sheriff's Dept .357 Magnum (1940):



Texas Dept. of Public Safety .38 Special (1938):



Georgia State Patrol .45 Colt (1937):



U.S. Border Patrol .38 Special (1941):



Best,
Charles

 

[epd925]

Charles I'm trying to get one of every sidearm carried by my agency. I've been looking everywhere for a GSP Colt. Can you tell me anything about it? How you came by it. Is it marked? I know very little about them other than they were carried. I have also heard there were w Nichol models