How about this picture thread. Colt revolvers!

[Nightcrawler]

You know, it took me a long time to convert to revolvers. I was interested in a 4" .357, but could never find one in the few shops around where I lived.

I wish that, back in 2002, right after my 21st Birthday, I would've found a 4" stainless King Cobra and bought it instead of my CZ-97. Who knows the righteous path of revolving handguns it might've set me on? LOL

Oh well. I've got a 686 now. Will have to eventually get a King Cobra to go with it. Too bad Colt fell apart and dropped their revolver line...

 

[GUNKWAZY]

Too bad Colt fell apart and dropped their revolver line...

It's too bad people are not willing to pay for quality.

They only want cheap, Taiwan, China & Malasia crap.

Jeff (GUNKWAZY)

 

[Nightcrawler]

Hell, S&W 686s retail for around $600.00. I'd gladly pay as much for a new King Cobra from Hartford.

 

[Danus ex]

As a younggun who loves Colt DA's, I make the following proposal:

When all you older guys kick off and someone decides to sell your old Colt DA's, have the seller look me up! I'll give them a good home for several more decades.

 

[Cocked & Locked]

 

[XavierBreath]

Colt Trooper III


.22 Long Rifle

 

[BillinNH]

Here's my 1978 Detective Special, an unbelievably sweet shooting revolver. Don't know how they got it so smooth.

Bill

 

[Dogmatix]

Colt Trooper MKIII

My baby!

 

[SaxonPig]

After nearly 40 years of accumulating I have a few Colts gathering dust. Here are a couple of my more uncommon Colts.

This one is a New Service that was made in 1917 in .455 Eley. It was shipped to London and sold through their shop, probably to a British officer on his way to France to fight the Huns. At some point it was converted to .45 Colt and nickel plated. I bought it in 1997 from a pawnshop in Utah.



Here’s a Police Positive Special from the late 1970s. I got this at a gun show for my wife but she didn’t like it so I kept it for myself. If you’re noticing a pattern developing here for nickel plated Colts, you’re right.



An Officers Model Target in .22 from 1930, a first year production piece. This was before they counter-bored the chambers on .22 rim fire revolvers but this one seems to have fired countless thousands of rounds in competition without any problems.



The Metropolitan was only made a couple of years in the early 1970s. A .38 Special service revolver with a very heavy barrel built on the Mk III action.



Of course I have the usual gaggle of Diamondbacks and Pythons hanging around the barn. Here are a few.

 

[ewb45acp]

The Python was inherited from my father. The Trooper I discovered in a gunshop a few years ago. It sat unfired since 1965 (what a crime!). It shoots as well as the Python.

 

[Bullet Bob]

Colt Three-Five-Seven:



Dick Special:



Colt New Frontier Buntline .22 lr/.22 magnum:



The box says it all:



1948 .38 "Heavy Barrel" Target:

 

[Rampant_Colt]

Colts

You can probably tell from my name here what firearms i'm partial to - lol
The OP is a 1959 and i'm not sure what year the Trooper is.

this OP is a 1968

my camera sucks, and i'm a lousy photographer

 

[ZBill]

Colt Cobra and DS

both minted in 1977

 

[Catbird]

Colt Cobra and DS...

Nice - I really like those!

 

[treebeard]

My 1961 Colt Trooper .38Spl. It is very, very, accurate.

 

[XavierBreath]

King Cobra

 

[bfoster]

Here are a few pre WWII Colt DA revolvers that haven't yet been pictured.

I did note that you're interested in 20th century Colts, but here's an early Colt DA, a Model 1878 Frontier. Made in 1879. Outside, maybe 1% condition, but the lockwork and bore are pristine. Go figure...

An Army Special, 41 Long Colt, 1903. This revolver appears has been set up for heel bullets. It probably left the factory set up for inside lubrcated bullets.

A Police Positive, 32 Long Colt, 1907.

A Police Positive target (Model G), 1915, 22 LR

A New Service Target chambered in Russian and S&W Special. Ouch, given the competition at the time, that must have hurt. 1920.

A New Service in 38 W.C.F. 1920.

Another Army Special, this one is in 32 W.C.F. 1922

A Shooting Master, 38 Special, 1932.

An Officers Model Target in 32 (S&W) Long, 1941

Bob