Newer Colt SAA

[Blondie]

Can someone please help. I've been doing some research but am no expert. What is a fair price on a 2007 Colt Single Action Army with 5.5" barrel in 45 Long Colt? The color is case hardened and it is a "custom shop." The condition is 99%. Is 2007 a year with the removable bushing that everyone seems to like?

Thanks,

Blonde

 

[timothy75]

Id pay 1100 to 1300$

 

[rcmodel]

A 2007 custom shop should be a good one.

But all SAA's have been made by the custom shop for many years before 2007.

My 1997 has the fixed cylinder bushing, but is otherwise a decent gun.

But the newer ones, or the older ones, are much better!

If the one you are looking at has the brilliant bone-charcoal case colored frame, ala Doug Turnbull.
It will have the old-style removable base pin bushing.

You should be a happy camper at $1,200 to $1,300.

rc

 

[CraigC]

99% for me should be less than a new one. I'd say $1000-$1100.

 

[texagun]

I haven't seen a recent model Colt SAA for less than $1300 for sale in the North Texas area for several years. And I've been looking for one.

 

[BSA1]

Zero until you check the diameter of the cylinder throats. Colt specs for 45 Colt are all over up to .458". I had one with .456 & .457" that Colt said was within factory specs!

 

[BLU]

BSA1.... what generation Colt? (Or about what year manufacture?)

 

[HexHead]

Keep in mind, current MSRP on that gun is $1416. It's rare to find one at that price as the Custom Shop is backed up two years on orders, so they typically bring a premium. That gun is easily worth $1300.

 

[BSA1]

3rd Generation. Mid-late 1990's.

 

[CraigC]

That gun is easily worth $1300.

Nonsense. It's a used 3rd generation and $1300 is top dollar for a new one.

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Is 2007 a year with the removable bushing that everyone seems to like?

My 1997 has the fixed cylinder bushing, but is otherwise a decent gun.

Howdy

There is absolutely nothing about the removable cylinder bushing that makes the gun better than one of the early 3rd Gens with the pressed in bushing. Nothing. Yeah, I know, some folks say it makes the gun less likely to bind with Black Powder, but I am here to tell you it makes no difference at all. One of my 2nd Gens has the bushing frozen in place and I gave up long ago trying to free it. It shoots BP just as well as any of my Colts with the removable bushing. And Rugers don't have a removable bushing, the gas collar is integral with the cylinder, but mine shoot Black Powder just fine.

The simple fact is, because shooters believed the removable bushing made for a better gun, Colt started making the bushing removable again, but it really does not make the gun perform any better.

 

[CraigC]

It's not the bushing itself that makes them better guns. Like pinned barrels and recessed cylinders on S&W's, it's not necessarily that those features make them better. They are just an indication of a sixgun that was built when quality was better overall. For Colt, the removable bushings harkened a significant increase in quality of the 3rd generation SAA's.