picked up a stray (Colt Officer's Match)

[Guillermo]

Plastic is so easy to cut, and you can even melt it

at least my old Colts would be unmolested!!!

(I am thinking my description in post #22 might be spot on)

 

[Old Fuff]

I am thinking my description in post #22 might be spot on

I love you like the strange uncle that wears cowboy boots and shorts, drinks tequila though a "crazy straw" with tiny Yosemite Sam clinging to it and giggles like Walter Brennan as he burns ant hills with gasoline...

NOT TRUE!!! I pour laundry bleach on anthills – and it works! Bleach is cheaper then gas, and it can be said that “nobody can out-cheap me.” Gasoline is O.K. for cleaning guns if you give up smoking… Be careful how you use it if you’re inside the house though. Incidentally, don’t use a bench grinder when working on a Glock, as the plastic clogs the wheels. Don't ask me how I know.

Darn! I have to explain everything to you. You need to get a life boy.

 

[Guillermo]

Incidentally, don’t use a bench grinder when working on a Glock

That's okay...I don't own any Glocks.

Don't ask me how I know

Ok...give it up...how do you know?

I pour laundry bleach on anthills

But you are not denying giggling like Walter Brennan

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Cool old gun....I know some view it as a sin to refinish old guns like that, but given the shape that one is in, I probably would and would do it on a budget. I know a gunsmith that will do a basic reblue for under 100 bucks. I'd probably shave that in half and do the prep work myself and just have him dip it.

 

[photohause]

They are great looking guns and shooters~!
1953 Officers Match

 

[Guillermo]

CPE,

I can go country or pop on reblueing.

Honest holster wear is tells a story...some dork taking steel wool to it smacks of abuse.

I probably won't refinish and it I do it will be awhile.

So many good deals out there that it is hard not to buy. Picked up a K22 from the early 50's for 290.

This is the time to acquire.

 

[SwampWolf]

I have a question re the Colt Officers Model Match and the Officers Model Special target revolvers. Did Colt manufacture the Specials at the same time as the Match models? I have an Officers Model Special, with its heavy, untapered barrel, made in 1951 and it was always my understanding that the Officers Model Match, with its tapered heavy barrel and updated sights ("Accro" rear sight replacing the Special's "Coltmaster" rear sight) came along in 1953, replacing the Special. Yet, one of my sources reports that the Special was introduced in 1949 and was dropped from production in 1955; meaning that Colt was making Match and Special models simultaneously for at least two years. Anybody know the answer (if the truth can be known) to my question? Thanks.