so…i have been intrigued with the 32 revolver caliber for awhile, got a 327/32 barrel for my bond arms derringer to “test-fire” it and promptly got hooked.
i found this 1922 colt police positive 32 revolver for under $300. its finish has seen honest wear (nothing remarkable at 100 years old) and yet it locks up tighter than a bank vault. i cleaned it and took it out for my first time earlier this week. by mistake i grabbed two boxes of 32 “short” out of my small 32 stash (i intended one box to be 32long but i was too hurried heading out my door).
i love it. its frame and grip are slender and small so had to adjust my hold unlike my fatter other revolvers. it was comfortably soft to shoot. stopping power aside, i understand how 32 was popular back then. the sights…well there really aren’t any, but with practice i will figure it out. i shot about 90 rounds into mostly 3-4” groups at 15-20’ but accuracy too isn’t the point.
i simply love how it feels so mechanically solid, knowing that a colt craftsman hand-assembled each one in a golden era of american growth. i love it being 100 years old, made in the year of my paternal grandparents’ marrage (then recent polish/lithuanian immigrants), and my maternal uncle’s birth (he was kia in april 1945). it looks and acts like the revolver that colt was once, at the top of handgun heap in the 1920s (due apologies to s&w fans, me included).
sorry this isn’t much of a technical review, but what love affair is technical?
i found this 1922 colt police positive 32 revolver for under $300. its finish has seen honest wear (nothing remarkable at 100 years old) and yet it locks up tighter than a bank vault. i cleaned it and took it out for my first time earlier this week. by mistake i grabbed two boxes of 32 “short” out of my small 32 stash (i intended one box to be 32long but i was too hurried heading out my door).
i love it. its frame and grip are slender and small so had to adjust my hold unlike my fatter other revolvers. it was comfortably soft to shoot. stopping power aside, i understand how 32 was popular back then. the sights…well there really aren’t any, but with practice i will figure it out. i shot about 90 rounds into mostly 3-4” groups at 15-20’ but accuracy too isn’t the point.
i simply love how it feels so mechanically solid, knowing that a colt craftsman hand-assembled each one in a golden era of american growth. i love it being 100 years old, made in the year of my paternal grandparents’ marrage (then recent polish/lithuanian immigrants), and my maternal uncle’s birth (he was kia in april 1945). it looks and acts like the revolver that colt was once, at the top of handgun heap in the 1920s (due apologies to s&w fans, me included).
sorry this isn’t much of a technical review, but what love affair is technical?
