Detective Special, Police Positive Special Trigger (.126" X .207") Hammer ( 126" X .221") Diamondback Revolvers built from 1966 to 1991 in Calibers .22 LR and .38 Special These shims are made to fit revolvers with nominal 1/8" Hammer and Trigger pins Pistolsmith Tony contacted me ...
The new Python is a good handgun. I own a good number of Colt revolvers and do not hoard them or keep them as collector’s items. The new Colt is a shooter’s gun and perhaps the best revolver Colt has ever manufactured. The .38 Special 148-grain wadcutter is a fine small-game l...
Fourth VariationColt Detective Special revolvers were manufactured from 1993 to 1995. A derivative of the old Colt Police Positive, it was produced to meet the market demand for a gun that was easily concealed. The guns were produced in .32 and .38 caliber. My 1952 gun pictured here is a...
All the publicity posters, worldwide, showed Scott brandishing the much more familiar Colt .45 "Peacemaker". And none of this is mentioned in the "Goofs" for the movie, although it is pointed out that "Colt's first .45 caliber weapon was the Single-Action Army revolver, first made in ...
Colt had made plenty of revolvers for police forces, but the Python wasn’t intended for police use. Instead, it was meant to be a large-frame precision revolver aimed at competition shooters, and heck, it was meant to be a 38 Special cartridge. The choice to move to 357 Magnum gave ...
Over the 44 years of manufacture, a number of Model 1903 and 1908 Colts were purchased for military and police use, some of which were given special markings. Around 1905 the Woonsocket Police of Rhode Island purchased an unknown quantity of .32 pocket models in the vicinity of serial number...