It hasn't gotten any better looking overnight.

[SaxonPig]

Here's the beat up Trooper I bought yesterday. Cleaned it up some and I guess it looks better. Maybe not…

Anyway, after initially trying an older set of factory target stocks I put on these custom jobs that I've had for many years. No idea who made them, perhaps a home tinkerer? But I think they look OK. I may try to install some Colt medallions as I prefer having them on my stocks.

Boy, the more I look at this thing the worse it appears. May have to shoot it with my eyes closed. Oh well.

 

[st_albert]

Yep, I agree. It's hopeless. Better send it to me

 

[1 old 0311]

It has character.

 

[Old Fuff]

I expected far worse...

Get a can of blue paint and a brush...

 

[Tom M]

That's pristine compared to a Mk III I bought last year. Poor thing was so bad I had to have it bead-blasted and matte blued. Shoots like new, ugly as sin.

 

[wixedmords]

Ah, I am sure the Trooper's mother loves it.

It is a special piece either way. Enjoy it.

 

[geoff40]

"It hasn't gotten any better looking overnight"

Now THAT brings back memories.....

mens room graffiti: "Remember that no matter how good looking and sexy she is, somebody somewhere is sick of her sh%$."

 

[kjeff50cal]

Now THAT brings back memories.....

mens room graffiti: "Remember that no matter how good looking and sexy she is, somebody somewhere is sick of her sh%$."

You found what I said about my Ex...... DUCK incoming .

Yes that Trooper is cosmetically challenged but is probally handsome on the inside. And it will positively scare to death the BG on the wrong end of it .

 

[usmccpl]

if you cant live with it i will give it a good home for you

 

[pcf]

THOSE GRIPS LOOK TERRIBLE....HORRIBLE....AND THE COLT...BARF!!!

anachronism

The grips and the pistol came together at the wrong time. A pair of grips with some "character" would help.

The pistol has character and the grips are brand new, just doesn't fit.

 

[Master Blaster]

Spend $25 and get a blue wonder bluing kit Midway carries them, I used mine on a 1960 highpower that was missing 2/3 of its bluing and after a year and a half of handling and shooting it still looks pretty darn good.

It was pretty easy and doesnt involve boiling, corrosive salts, or fumes.

 

[ACP230]

If I had it two words would keep coming to mind: "Hard chrome."

 

[Cocked & Locked]

Looks great to me! Experience ain't a bad thing...

 

[Essex County]

You've got a nice revolver there. Beauty is as beauty does....Essex

 

[SaxonPig]

Actually, the grips are about 25years old (or more, that's how long I've had them) but they haven't been abused. It could not be justified monetarily but I am tempted to send this off to Ford's for nickel plating. I like these in nickel and I think I want to keep the gun but it's really very ugly as is.

 

[Cocked & Locked]

It could not be justified monetarily but I am tempted to send this off to Ford's for nickel plating.

Some things require no justification...go for it Amigo! I have a 3.5" S&W 27 that I'm thinking about doing the same thing to. Reason?... it has two small warts.

That old Trooper would look great with Nickel and those stocks you have pictured (with a set of silver Colt medallions installed)...to die for.

 

[Hutch]

Look at the bright side.

1) It's not a Smith that's been so cosmetically challenged
2) Not much you can do would decrease the value
3) It might actually be improved by riding under the seat of your truck with the jack handle for a few months.

editted to add: Get those nice grips off first...

 

[Pax Jordana]

"The grips and the pistol came together at the wrong time. A pair of grips with some "character" would help.

The pistol has character and the grips are brand new, just doesn't fit." --PCF

I agree. Take the grips off, put them in a bag with a bunch of metal scraps and stick the whole shebang in your brass tumbler overnight.


They say, never fight an ugly man, he has so little to lose...

 

['Card]

Boy, the more I look at this thing the worse it appears.

Fortunately, it's a gun. Not a purse.

Decades of research, statistics and debate have yet to conclusively demonstrate any direct correlation between 'pretty' and 'lethal'.

 

[slow944]

Colt Trooper

I bought a Trooper a couple of months ago and it had to have been a holster queen. Some wear on the cylinder and muzzel but man does it shoot. If you don't like it send it to me and I'll put the two of them together and see what happens Mine was made in '65, when was yours made?

 

[XavierBreath]

I agree with pcf. The incongruity of those beautiful grips isn't working. they are so nice that they need a pristine gun to balance them out. This gun needs some weathered and worn grips, preferably stock ones.

I'm not sure I would nickel it, although Fords does stellar work, and it would be a pretty gun. I really think I would just put some worn grips on this one and enjoy a revolver I did not have to baby around.

 

[soutex50]

I agree with MasterBlaster, I've done several "antique" guns (1900's hammerless and ancient revolvers) with taht blue wonder stuff and have found to obtain a very nice antique finish. The end result is as if the blue just aged beatifully instead of sporting that obvious freshly blued look.

 

[SaxonPig]

Very end of 1968 production. I thought it was much older judging by the appearance.

 

[Onmilo]

Kinda looks like something you might see in a Border Patrolmans holster back around 1980.
Ditch the wood grips and find a set of old, beat up, Coltrock plastic Trooper grips to go on that thing because those grips and those wear marks just look all kind of wrong on that gun.

 

[Iggy]

If'n you ain't got any respect for an old timer like that, send it to to an ol' geezer who will treat it right!!!
My old duty revolver looks a lot like that, and I wouldn't consider reblueing it.

We earned the scrapes and scars that we both show, We wear them with pride.