☆Colt Pistol Picture Thread☆

[JT-AR-MG42]

I noticed the difference in the barrel markings and the placement of the Rampant Colt on your Cobra. Would you share the year of manufacture?

Mine is a 1956, made a year or so after the change from duo-tone to full blue and with the longer ejector rod.
FWIW, I notice your Cobra has the shortened grip frame that, IIRC, came into use around 1966.
The Cobra is ideal for me as well. I live in 'two shirt' country, so the pistol is just dropped down the front of the outer one.

Your .45 looks really sharp with lots of nice color left.
My .38 (also a 1956) has led a bit tougher life and was, for years, my holster or pommel gun while out and about.
Shoots the same loads as my Model 357.

JT

 

[Orion Jim]

Mine is a 1956, made a year or so after the change from duo-tone to full blue and with the longer ejector rod.
FWIW, I notice your Cobra has the shortened grip frame that, IIRC, came into use around 1966.
The Cobra is ideal for me as well. I live in 'two shirt' country, so the pistol is just dropped down the front of the outer one.

Your .45 looks really sharp with lots of nice color left.
My .38 (also a 1956) has led a bit tougher life and was, for years, my holster or pommel gun while out and about.View attachment 1049861
Shoots the same loads as my Model 357.

JT

My Cobra is s/n 264107LW from 1954, to the best of my knowledge.

 

[wiscoaster]

I don't think I've ever clicked "Like" on so many posts in a single thread. Now I'm going to have to go and rub some lotion on this new callous on my trackpad finger......

 

[nra-life-member]

These are awesome to handle.

 

[redcon1]

My Only Colt: The first gun I ever purchased- a 1974 Colt Combat Commander with satin nickel finish purchased NIB in 1992 for $550 when I was 21. I had been drooling over this gun for years at my small town LGS before I was old enough to buy it. It seems like an odd twist of fate that I even ended up with it.

 

[jar]

Older and newer:


1906 Type 1 and 1919 Type 3

 

[bannockburn]

Dragonfly

I’ve only got one—my Detective Special. I should get around to replacing these grips…that finger notch at the bottom just doesn’t feel right.

I never really card all that much for that particular Pachmayr grip either. It just felt too big and bulky and the finger groove at the bottom just made it feel more awkward.

I finally hit on the idea of using a Tyler T-Grip adaptor on my snubby revolvers to better fill out those tiny little grips that S&W use to put on them. That and the current boot type rubber grips S&W uses work just fine for me.

 

[Old Dog]

1933 Colt Police Positive

 

[Old Dog]

1981 Diamondback

 

[Old Dog]

Cobra (2017)

 

[Old Dog]

New King Cobra

 

[Old Dog]

Stainless 1911s

 

[Old Dog]

New Python

 

[Old Dog]

Series 70s (stainless repro, original blued)

 

[Old Dog]

This seems to be one of those rare threads that occurs only once or twice a year when we should have a button just for "Like - Every Post in Thread."

And thanks to WC145, I still lust after the awesomeness you display in your pics, and a couple other of you with the vintage Colts...

 

[Bandit67]

Colt Trooper .357 from 1965 I think.
I've heard it called the Poor Man's Python. I don't think the full checkered grips are original but I really like them.

 

[wiscoaster]

The REAL problem with this thread is that my wanna list just keeps getting expanded ....

 

[Jimbo80]

A "like" for the like all option! One thing I realized is I need a Woodsman.

 

[BigBlue 94]

A "like" for the like all option! One thing I realized is I need a Woodsman.

The 1950 match target Woodsman I have is everyone's favorite gun after they shoot it. Laser accurate, zero recoil, and a comfortable grip. It goes out quite often.

 

[CapnMac]

One thing I realized is I need a Woodsman.

You and me, both. My LGS had a gorgeous example in the used case; the four-digit price tag cooled my jets a bit

 

[DustyGmt]

My Cobra is s/n 264107LW from 1954, to the best of my knowledge.

Interesting, mine is also a 1954. 265xxx Ser. To the best of my knowledge as well. For a gun that is just shy of 70 years old it runs like a dream and has an excellent trigger.

Same goes for my 1903, it's dated to 1918 which I believe makes it a type 1 and it, also runs like a dream. These were the types of guns men carried and relied on for deep concealment and the history of these old Colts is what kind of pulls me in and makes me admire them so...... many notable users and very well designed and seem to be ahead of their time.......

I really kick myself for getting rid of the Woodsman, Frontier Scout and especially the mint DetSpec.... the Detective Special was my favorite Colt of all, but I traded it for a BM43 Bowie Balisong.....

 

[Viper1357]

Here's my Cold Steel 1917 Bowie to go with my Colt Steel 1911s.

 

[JT-AR-MG42]

Interesting, mine is also a 1954. 265xxx Ser.

Dusty, if the serial is indeed 6 digits + the LW, your Cobra dates 1968 instead.
https://proofhouse.com/colt/ shows the 1954 serial range of 26150 LW to 33900 LW - 5 digits.
My 1956 Cobra is serial 52xxx LW.
A 1954 Cobra will have a matte blue in the cylinder flutes and have a full length grip frame with the grips
not enclosing the butt.
Additionally, the ejector rod is much shorter the the barrel.
Will try to come up with a photo or two to illustrate.

JT

 

[DustyGmt]

You and me, both. My LGS had a gorgeous example in the used case; the four-digit price tag cooled my jets a bit

My buddy just sent me a pic of a new in box, never fired in its original box with papers Colt Huntsman in the Maine classifieds site around where he lives for $900. If I was close by I might be tempted to grab it.

I had a chance to rectify my stupid decision to trade off my Woodsman, couple years back the owner of the general store pulled out a couple of his Woodsmans from his private stash and had them priced at $500/ea and they were mint. I wanted badly to buy one of them but I think I had a major repair bill or something, didn't work out. I miss it, that's for sure. I wish we still had a gun classifieds site for VT but when they killed private sales people stopped posting and lost interest IME......

 

[DustyGmt]

If I was in Maine this might be mine, it's a few hours + drive for me but.......tempting.