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    Vintage Colt handgun thread

    I looked and didn’t see one so here we are! Open to single actions, double actions, 1911s. Preferably vintage production but hey, if you just scored a new production Colt Government Model or Turnbull restored SAA to post up I’m not going to judge. Well, maybe just a little…

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    Oh, I forgot about the 1903 and 1908! I had some 1903s about 15 years ago but let them go for some stupid reason. DOH!
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    It's amazing to me that old Colt revolvers, except SAA's, don't get nearly the attention that S&W revolvers do. I'm generally talking about pre WW2 production. Look at the prices people want for Smith Hand Ejectors compared to something like a pre war Colt Officers model. I just bid on a S&W HE and it went for over 1K. It wasn't in that great of condition either. I collected Colt 1911's for awhile, still have a few.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Borderland View Post
    It's amazing to me that old Colt revolvers, except SAA's, don't get nearly the attention that S&W revolvers do. I'm generally talking about pre WW2 production. Look at the prices people want for Smith Hand Ejectors compared to something like a pre war Colt Officers model.
    I think some of it is the reputation of Colt's having a delicate DA (true or not), in the past they've been higher priced than comparable S&W (at least they were in my formative years) and maybe more than a little Colt snobbery that drove the prices up sooner than happened with S&W.

    Not long after I tuned 21 (early-90s) I worked for a pawn shop chain and the Smiths were always lower priced and more available than comparable Colt's. Not that I could afford either at the time, but that's what I saw on a regular basis in the stores I worked. Same when I played a little in the S&W world in the mid-oughts. Part of it might have been the numbers of turn-ins and reimports as PDs and foreign customers upgraded. I suspect S&W had a greater share of those markets, especially the foreign markets, than Colt.
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    Add in some non-Colt items from the safe and we are ready to fight the Kaiser over there...
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    1930 Colt Official Police, 22lr.

    Early Colt 'vest pocket', that was my grandfather's when he was NYPD in the 30's and 40's.
    Colt Trooper mk3, around 1975'ish.
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    A Colt 'Black Army' 1911 [not a1]. I bought this from a friend, whose father shot bullseye with it. Somewhere in it's history it was hardchromed, and all controls done in nitride bluing. [Very 70's]
    It shot wadcutter like a lazer, but not so much with hardball.

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