Colt Official Police

[CajunBass]

Now that's a nice one JBT. You did good.

I've told this story before, so if you've heard it, feel free to roll your eyes like my wife does when I get started.

When I was a young buck, I took a job with Burns Security. Duriing the interview, the guy asked me if I'd ever fired a gun. Well, I'd hunted most of my life, so I said I had. OK...You're an armed guard. I was issued a Sam Brown belt, a Border Patrol holster, six rounds of RNL ammo, and a Colt Official Police, 4", with genuine fake pearl grips. Man, I was in high cotton. Talk about Barney Fife. And I had six bullets. It was the first handgun I'd ever held in my hands I think. Remember he didn't ask if I'd fired a handgun. Just had I ever fired A gun. I was a bit of a guardhouse lawyer even then I suppose.

I never fired that gun. I turned it back in with the same six, RNL rounds a couple of years later, which I'm sure got issued to some other candidate, but it left me with weak spot for the Official Police revolver that I still have to this day. I need to find some Franzite "pearl" grips.

 

[Miami_JBT]

Now that's a nice one JBT. You did good.

I've told this story before, so if you've heard it, feel free to roll your eyes like my wife does when I get started.

When I was a young buck, I took a job with Burns Security. Duriing the interview, the guy asked me if I'd ever fired a gun. Well, I'd hunted most of my life, so I said I had. OK...You're an armed guard. I was issued a Sam Brown belt, a Border Patrol holster, six rounds of RNL ammo, and a Colt Official Police, 4", with genuine fake pearl grips. Man, I was in high cotton. Talk about Barney Fife. And I had six bullets. It was the first handgun I'd ever held in my hands I think. Remember he didn't ask if I'd fired a handgun. Just had I ever fired A gun. I was a bit of a guardhouse lawyer even then I suppose.

I never fired that gun. I turned it back in with the same six, RNL rounds a couple of years later, which I'm sure got issued to some other candidate, but it left me with weak spot for the Official Police revolver that I still have to this day. I need to find some Franzite "pearl" grips.

It was a take home piece when you worked for 'em?

 

[Mark_Mark]

Colt OM show off TIME! !!!

Very Very Very Rare 7.5” model! story is, Old West Cowboys needed a new revolver to replace the SAA. Colt Answer was a 7.5” in a wildcat round called the .38 Special. They only made a few of these because the Cowboy’s finally got with the times and thought the 1911 was better for cattle rustlers

 

[CajunBass]

It was a take home piece when you worked for 'em?

Oh yea. Both there and later when I worked for another large security company who issued me a Model 10. I had stopped working for the second outfit for a year or more before they called and asked if I still had that Model 10. They needed it for an upcoming inventory. I dropped it off the next day.


Thiings were different back then.

 

[Miami_JBT]

Speaking of Model 10s....



After a long drive.... back home and they finally got to meet.

5" Colt Official Police (made in 1937)
5" S&W Model 10 (no dash made in 1957)

So romantic seeing 'em together.

 

[Jeff olson]

Speaking of Model 10s....

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After a long drive.... back home and they finally got to meet.

5" Colt Official Police (made in 1937)
5" S&W Model 10 (no dash made in 1957)

So romantic seeing 'em together.

I know this is a colt thread, but I'll see your model 10 and raise you a 1905 hand ejector 1st change made in 1906. I know someone has a nicer one somewhere stuffed away, but this is the nicest 1905 I have seen in a long time.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I know this is a colt thread, but I'll see your model 10 and raise you a 1905 hand ejector 1st change made in 1906. I know someone has a nicer one somewhere stuffed away, but this is the nicest 1905 I have seen in a long time.View attachment 1195757View attachment 1195758

after 3 pages, it’s whatever it has evolved to!

 

[Miami_JBT]

I know this is a colt thread, but I'll see your model 10 and raise you a 1905 hand ejector 1st change made in 1906. I know someone has a nicer one somewhere stuffed away, but this is the nicest 1905 I have seen in a long time.View attachment 1195757View attachment 1195758

I have a 6" 1902, but nowhere near that condition.

 

[Miami_JBT]

after 3 pages, it’s whatever it has evolved to!

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@Mark_Mark

 

[Mark_Mark]

@Mark_Mark

Cartwright!

 

[Miami_JBT]

@Jeff_olson

My 1902