Colt SAA cylinder pin retaining screw on later models?

[goodtime]

Is anybody able to tell me if Colt continued to manufacture any SAA revolvers with the cylinder pin retaining screw after they switched to the spring-loaded cross pin as a standard offering?

 

[Jim K]

AFAIK, no. But there would have been, as always, a transition period, when old frames were being numbered and finished "out of the bin" until they were used up. So it is possible that a gun with the old frame could have a higher number than one with the new frame.

Jim

 

[vanfunk]

Which generation are you referring to? Colt has made several runs in the past, oh, 30 years of Single Action Army revolvers on the so-called "blackpowder frame." The 2nd gen guns were all Centennial Peacemakers; 2002 were made IIRC. 3rd gen guns were made as well, though I don't know how many, and .44-40 Frontier Six Shooters are back in production (or were, recently) on the old frame style. So in answer to your question, yes, Colt has made many SAA's with the blackpowder frame since the official "transition" in 1896. I have 1st Gen SAA with the then-new spring loaded cross pin, and I am aware of at least one example with a "later" serial number that has the old-style transverse blackpowder retaining screw. I'm not sure that revolvers of that era were always assembled sequentially, however. I suspect not.

Anyway, hope this helps.

vanfunk

 

[CraigC]

Yep, as vanfunk posted, there have been several runs of blackpowder frames in later years.

Personally, I like the crosspin frame better.

 

[rcmodel]

Colt custom shop is still offering the black powder frame (screw retained base pin) right now. Of course the gun is proofed for smokeless powder.

Look under "Product" on this chart for those that are available.

http://www.coltsmfg.com/upload/pdfs/Colt-Single-Action-Army-Products.jpg

http://www.coltsmfg.com/products-c1-Colt_Revolvers.aspx

rc

 

[goodtime]

This post was deleted because the basis was unfounded; a misinterpretation of a previous post

 

[rcmodel]

As I just said in post #5:

Of course the gun is proofed for smokeless powder.

All modern Colt SAA's are built for & Proof Tested with smokeless powder loads, regardless of which base pin retaining system they use.

They make no "black powder" guns.
The ones with the screw are just called "black powder" frames to tell them from the spring-loaded plunger ones.

rc

 

[goodtime]

rcmodel --

I failed to process your words properly. I read "smokeless" but my mind told me "black powder!" Never Mind post #6.

 

[goodtime]

BTW -- thanks everyone for the responses.