No serial number?! How can they sell it, if they are an FFL holder?
Also, on swing-out-cylinder Colts of this early type, the cylinder indexing was done on the back face of the cylinder, like on the Colt Lightning DA rod-ejector revolvers. It was not a good system. On the Lightnings, there is spring in the system that is over-stressed in routine use, and breaks fairly often. I don't know about the version in these early swing-out cylinder guns. Colt did not make nearly as many of them.
On the other hand, if it works, and the serial number can be found, it looks decent. 41 Long Colt might be made nowadays because of demand from cowboy action shooters.
What I meant was no serial number in the listing.
I think @Michael Tinker Pearce has one he worked up in 41 long Colt.
41 Long Colt might be made nowadays because of demand from cowboy action shooters.
That is what I was wanting. I couldn't figure out what it was from the blue book. Thanks.Without the cylinder notches the gun would be a Colt New Navy Model.
Also, the grips on the pictured gun are commercial New Navy Model hard rubber grips.
The New Army model commercial grips had the Colt pony on the grips.
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Colt always put Serial Numbers on their guns. So did Winchester, Smith and Wesson, and many other manufacturers long before 1968.
I can practically guarantee there is a serial number somewhere on that gun.
41 Colt is an old heeled bullet round. At one point the bullet diameter was reduced to about .386 and had a deep hollow base so the skirt would expand to fit the .406 rifling of the barrel. Absolutely no interest in CAS that I am aware of. The cartridge in the center of this photo is a 41 Colt. Note the bullet is the same diameter as the case. On the left is a 45 Colt, on the right is a 44 Colt, which also used a heeled bullet.View attachment 809022
Remington didn't. I've got a couple of Remington rimfire rifles with no serial number.