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
It’ll suffice to say I never had a bad 2nd Generation SAA. Their actions may not have been light but none felt full of sand as they do now. All the .45s had excessively large cylinder chamber mouths but they still do now in 2017. And I never had to entertain the thought of twist...
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...