Screamin' bullet
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Dear All,
I'd really appreciate if someone could give me some suggestions about the doubts I report hereinafter:
a seller proposed me a '66 Python, with box and test target. The target was dated november 1966, the serial number reported on is 62427, the same on the gun frame and crane. From that serial number the Python was made in 1967. Moreover, on the left side frame the number 67 is stamped and enclosed by a rectangle. Could someone explain me the date discrepancy between the target date and the one following the serial number? I'm dealing with a fake?
In addition the blueing color of this gun is a little bit lighter than the ones of more recent Pythons (from '70) I had the opportunity to see. The blueing of these last is close to a black-blue color, the one of the Python I'm speaking about has blue reflexes. Has the famous Colt Royal Blue had some changes along the years or it has ever had the same tonality along 50 production years? The gun box reports Colt Python, 6’’ barrel, Colt Blue.
Last doubt: the grips of that gun are woodden made. The boundary knurling area under the Colt medallion is slash cutted. On a '66 Python I expected to find the grips with the knurling area boundary partially reproducing the Colt medallion arc. Could someone explain me the different periods when Colt adopted the three different woodden grip shapes?
I thank you in advance for your replies and lavished time.
SB
I'd really appreciate if someone could give me some suggestions about the doubts I report hereinafter:
a seller proposed me a '66 Python, with box and test target. The target was dated november 1966, the serial number reported on is 62427, the same on the gun frame and crane. From that serial number the Python was made in 1967. Moreover, on the left side frame the number 67 is stamped and enclosed by a rectangle. Could someone explain me the date discrepancy between the target date and the one following the serial number? I'm dealing with a fake?
In addition the blueing color of this gun is a little bit lighter than the ones of more recent Pythons (from '70) I had the opportunity to see. The blueing of these last is close to a black-blue color, the one of the Python I'm speaking about has blue reflexes. Has the famous Colt Royal Blue had some changes along the years or it has ever had the same tonality along 50 production years? The gun box reports Colt Python, 6’’ barrel, Colt Blue.
Last doubt: the grips of that gun are woodden made. The boundary knurling area under the Colt medallion is slash cutted. On a '66 Python I expected to find the grips with the knurling area boundary partially reproducing the Colt medallion arc. Could someone explain me the different periods when Colt adopted the three different woodden grip shapes?
I thank you in advance for your replies and lavished time.
SB