My dream gun on GunBroker right now and I can't afford it

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ThomasT said:
Put it on a credit card. Its only money and you will never see one of those for sale ever again. Buy and then find a few things you have you aren't using and sell those to help pay for it.
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Lol I wish that was an option but my credit isn't in the best place right now. I'm building it back but it's a work in progress.
 
That is a New Service? Wow, somehow it looks smaller than any other New Service I have seen. Those grips much be for big hands.
 
Monac said:
That is a New Service? Wow, somehow it looks smaller than any other New Service I have seen. Those grips much be for big hands.
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Shooting Master with King rib conversion

Even for a Shooting Master without the King rib conversion, 45LC/ACP is by far the rarest and most desirable. 44 Special is right next to it.
 
B. T.

So many times, having cash and stumbling upon a dream, rarely coincicide. One of the main reasons I don't sell.

Amazing gun, rarely seen for sale. Hope it works out, but life will go on, either way.
 
Is anyone worried about the shiny on the left side of the barrel? I don't see anything on the other side or the right/bottom. Just some wear?
 
Pretty neat customization with the dual cylinders, King ramp front sight, and those target style grips. Must have been quite the contender back in the day.
 
Nullcone said:
Is anyone worried about the shiny on the left side of the barrel? I don't see anything on the other side or the right/bottom. Just some wear?
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With any other gun I would be. The Colt Shooting Master is arguably the finest DA revolver ever made though...better than a modern day Korth or Manurhin to many. Again, it's arguable. Obviously S&W's Registered Magnum and their old triple lock are in the running too.

Bill Wilson from Wilson Combat considers the Colt to be the best so that's at least one credible opinion.

Anyways yeah...with any other revolver, the wear would worry me. In a Colt Shooting Master that has the King rib conversion, and comes in 45LC with the ACP cylinder included, I don't even really notice the wear lol. I just pray I can find another one of these when I have more money to spend.

Also...obviously it's not technically a Shooting Master, but everything outside of the model name, it's pretty much the exact same gun but with the custom rib.
 
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KarateHottie93 said:
This is the most beautiful revolver ever made...and it comes with two cylinders, in the calibers everyone actually wants. This one even has the grips I like. Unfortunately I have plans that require a lot of money to be saved by next month and it's killing me. I really want this this gun.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/914751800
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That looks so special. Sorry about your situation. I certainly know the feeling.
 
Dang, that's a really cool old school custom! I would think it's a 1917, not a Shooting Master. There'd be no reason for King's to do a sight conversion on a Shooting Master.
 
CraigC said:
Dang, that's a really cool old school custom! I would think it's a 1917, not a Shooting Master. There'd be no reason for King's to do a sight conversion on a Shooting Master.
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Maybe not an M-1917 but a commercial New Service certainly. And what is that button/screw head just above the cylinder latch? And, how does the ACP cylinder work with the .45 Colt sideplate? Or does the ACP cylinder sloide back and forth when opened? The ACP cylinder is normally shorter at the rear end to allow greater headspace.

Bob Wright
 
Thats a standard new service or model 1917 Army that has been customized. U.S. Property stamp on the barrel is from a 1917 Army. New Service pistols had the caliber marking just like what is shown as well, except they had New Service before the caliber.

Can see it but not read it on this 1920's 38 WCF New service of mine.

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Here is the U.S. Property stamp on my 1917 Army, made in 1918.
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The rear sight is also wrong for a shooting master, but that may be part of the King's rib. The shooting master also has shooting master stamped in the barrel, to the left of the caliber marking.
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My Shooting Master does not have that screw above the cylinder latch either. Mine looks like it was shot with magnum loads, a lot. Its plain worn out.
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I keep looking at that "screw" above the cylinder latch. I'm sort of thinking it is a two position "switch." As it is in the photograph, it allows the latch to move rearward to open the cyinder. But, turned some 45* or so CCW, it seems it would block rearward movement of the cylinder latch.

But, WHY?

"Also, that odd screw might be holding the sight rib on"

Looks too low for that. Almost in line with the firing pin.

Bob Wright
 
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