![]() ![]() ![]() I really tried to follow their lead but it just didn’t happen. Like just about every reader from my Medicare-aged generation I was influenced by Elmer Keith and Skeeter Skelton. 44 S&W Special to ever have been invented because it did nothing the. ![]() Charles Askins, also a notable gunwriter wrote he saw no reason for the. Skeeter Skelton, of gunwriting fame once wrote that old Southwestern lawmen felt the. 44-40, were humdingers right from the start. 44 WCF, which we 21st century shooters usually call. 44 Colt went exactly nowhere in the long run.īut the. 45, Colt’s 19th century cartridge developments were dismal. That’s right-I prefer my Colt SAA’s to shoot cartridges developed by Winchester Repeating Arms over anything Colt ever developed. That said, I still like and keep all the standard SAA barrel variations.Īnd here’s the icing on the cake: The SAA’s I prefer over all others are chambered for the. And while 4-3/4-inch barrel lengths have a “look” and are likely the best-selling SAA’s today from Colt and many other replica manufacturers, I’ve come to prefer the 7-1/2-inch length. I welcome nickel finish because it is easier to clean black powder fouling from, which I am sure was the reason why so many late 19th century revolvers were nickeled. No longer does nickel-plating seem garish. Now, with 47 years of Colt SAA shooting under my belt I know exactly what I like. A decade passed and I realized my mistake upon discovering in the 2nd Generation of Colt SAA production only 113 were made with combination of nickel finish, 4-3/4-inch barrel and. 357 in my hands, I considered it rather garish and sold it for a $25 profit two years later. 38 Special with 4-3/4-inch barrel and was fully nickel-plated. Both of those had color case hardened frames with blued remainder. To me that Colt just did not have the proper feel and heft. Within hours of driving away from the store I knew a mistake had been made. 357 Magnum purchased in 1970 and it had the 4-3/4-inch barrel. I was happy with it because I knew no other. My very first one purchased in 1968 was a. My early years as a Colt SAA shooter included quite a bit of floundering in regards to what I liked. ![]()
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