it came with a 4¾” barrel and blue/case colored finish. The year was 1970. Its original hard rubber grips long ago disappeared and so did the Colt itself a couple times only to have
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Prices were pretty hefty for the mid-1950s at $125. I have an original Colt price list dated January 1, 1939. The SAA in it is listed at $37.50, for all barrel lengths, calibers and finishes. By comparison, Colt’s Government Model was $41.50. SAA caliber options at the time were ...
Changes were made but the basic SAA was the same, i.e. three standard barrel lengths of 4 3/4”, 5 1/2” and 7 1/2”, finishes of full nickel or blue, with color case hardened frame, and grips of hard rubber. There have also been some limited production runs with a variety of...
but they also followed five years later with the .45 Colt Model 1878 Double Action. The latter is basically an SAA fitted with a DA mechanism and a different grip. The Model 1878 loads and unloads the same way as the SAA, that is, with a loading gate and an ejector rod, however, ...
Combining power and portability, the Colt 1851 Navy revolver became a Civil War staple, a frontier favorite, and helped usher in the age of the gunfighter.
Colt Lightning was one version of the Model 1877 double action revolver with other nicknamed guns the Thunderer and Rainmaker.