Colt Boa Auction...I had no idea...

[GeoDudeFlorida]

NIGHTLORD40K

I actually liked the Colt Mk.V (the grips were one of the few on Colt DA revolvers that fit my hand perfectly), and in fact I had a couple of them, and while the Boa is a nice looking version of that revolver, there's no way it's worth that kind of money! That's priced more like what someone would pay for a USAF Colt Aircrewman with serial number "AF-1"!

Only if it was the one issued to Maj Gen LeMay hisself.

 

[Bill Raby]

Colt made 1100 of the 1847 Walkers. It is a lousy design and a good many of them blew up. Ever see how much those sell for?

 

[bannockburn]

GeoDudeFlorida

Only if it was the one issued to Maj Gen LeMay hisself.

From what I read the Colt Aircrewman Serial Number AF-1 went to General Hoyt Vandenberg.

 

[GeoDudeFlorida]

GeoDudeFlorida


From what I read the Colt Aircrewman Serial Number AF-1 went to General Hoyt Vandenberg.

Thanks. I didn’t know that. My dad worked for LeMay. From his stories I figure he didn’t need a revolver anyway. The General chewed lead and spat bullets.

 

[bannockburn]

GeoDudeFlorida

Thanks. I didn’t know that. My dad worked for LeMay. From his stories I figure he didn’t need a revolver anyway. The General chewed lead and spat bullets.

Quite possibly true too!

There was a company called Randall Firearms in California that manufactured some of the first all stainless steel 1911s back in the early '80s. The company was named after Brigadier General Russell Randall who was associated with Ken Lau who owned KEN-AIR, an aircraft instrument repair company. Somehow Lau became involved with manufacturing 1911 pistols for the South Korean government, a deal which later fell through. So to recoup his investment he began to market the 1911s for commercial sale here in the U.S. As it so happened someone who worked at Randall was good friends with General LeMay and they had the General design his version of a compact 1911 (presumably the General had wanted this pistol for use by SAC bomber crews). It was Colt Commander in size, had a squared off trigger guard, and the magazines had a finger rest on them. And that's how General LeMay had a pistol named after him.

I found all this info from an excellent and in depth article on Randall Firearms written by Rick Kennerknecht and can be found on sight1911.com. The photo of the General LeMay 1911 is from one I found online.