Moving on to Second Generation .357s, I must admit to a sort of love/hate relationship with them. Such was my second-ever Colt SAA. Bought brand new the same month I turned 21, it came with a 4¾” barrel and blue/case colored finish. The year was 1970. Its original hard rubber...
A special-order nickel-finished SAA would be quite the find with factory fire-blued trim and class “B” engraving, but a factory cutaway? This is a truly rare find with the included letter. It is also worth noting that the letter indicates that a total of 100 of these revolvers were ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook Wikipedia 1.(Firearms)A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning pistol, Colt-Browning pis...
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.