An old friend returns

[PapaG]

Back in our gun shop days which ended when dad passed in '79, one of the newer revolvers to come out from Colt was a 7/8 scale single action in 22/22WMR and offered in two versions, a "Peacemaker" with fixed sights and for all intents a clone of the full size peacemaker. It was also offered in a "New Frontier" flattop with micro sights. I had to sell the one I got from dad when jobs went south and kids started college. Lo and behold, today, in comes a guy with a plastic box and inside is a New Frontier with both cylinders. The case hardening was faded with very light pitting in the concave areas. I asked him where he got it and he told me he bought it from an older guy from a town nearby some years back and needed money for, of all things, college for the kids. I had sold mine to a guy from that same town. I called home and asked my wife to look in 'the book". Same serial. I made him an offer, he accepted and now I am going to clean, take a little #5 wool and oil to the pitted spots and take my old buddy out for a trial.
Now there is a 22 convertible in the safe for each of the boys, one gets a Colt, the other gets a Ruger.
Hope it shoots as well as it used to. Sometimes the old saw that no good deed goes unpunished is just plain wrong.

 

[Armored farmer]

That's a great story.
I guess you were meant to have it.

 

[Sistema1927]

Sounds like it was tending pigs.

Time for the prodigal to return.

 

[Riomouse911]

Neat! Those gone and forgotten and then returned stories are always cool to hear.

I remember when I had a gun stolen years ago...and about 7 years later it was found and sent back to me pretty much none the worse for wear. Felt good to get the old gun back! (It still has the case number visible on the magazine)

 

[PapaG]

Neat! Those gone and forgotten and then returned stories are always cool to hear.

I remember when I had a gun stolen years ago...and about 7 years later it was found and sent back to me pretty much none the worse for wear. Felt good to get the old gun back! (It still has the case number visible on the magazine)

Thought my long ago stolen Colt Sport Woodsman had come home a few years back when a guy brought one in to sell. Serial looked really close, it was a second model.....I bought it, went hole and found in the book that the serial was one digit off....the last digit. I pretend it is the same.

 

[bannockburn]

PapaG

Two great stories! Loved those Colt New Frontier .22s; they were so nicely made with that bluing and color case hardening that Colt finished them with.

 

[PapaG]

PapaG

Two great stories! Loved those Colt New Frontier .22s; they were so nicely made with that bluing and color case hardening that Colt finished them with.

Makes my late brother's Frontier Scout look cheap. I never cared for the alloy frame but I had a 9" Buntline that really cut the ground squirrels apart out at the cemetery.

 

[PapaG]

Did shoot ten rounds of Fed mag h.p. this afternoon in thirty five degree driving wind cold. Two hands, shaking a little, put five in a handspan at thirty yards. A little later resting on a rolled up blanket I managed to hit one time a clay pigeon at a hundred yards. Too darn cold.
One time out of five shot, that is. The other four only scared it.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Wow, I'm very happy for you. To have a gun you had to sell come back items amazing. Congratulations and enjoy!

 

[Cokeman]

Let’s see it

 

[PapaG]

Let’s see it

Guess I will have to figure out the picture thing.

 

[PapaG]

Cant figure out how to get pictures from my Droid phone to my computer...have to have one of the kids come over and show me.

 

[entropy]

I 'cut my teeth' on a New Frontier. My Dad kept it at the cabin, and once he knew I was up to handling it safely, I could take it out in the woods with me. I have lots of good memories of that old .22.

 

[Cokeman]

Do you see an Upload button below the Reply box? This site makes it really hard if you use an iPad. An Android might be just as hard.

 

[PapaG]

Do you see an Upload button below the Reply box? This site makes it really hard if you use an iPad. An Android might be just as hard.

 

[PapaG]

I think it worked...this is not it but a real sns.

 

[bannockburn]

PapaG

With my phone (a Motorola Droid), I take a photo, email it to my laptop, download it, and then drop it in the inbox of my imgur account. Takes all of about 3 or 4 minutes (took me longer than that to take the photo). Came across this article on the then "new" Colt New Frontier .22 while looking through some of my old gun mags; thought you might like it.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Back in our gun shop days which ended when dad passed in '79, one of the newer revolvers to come out from Colt was a 7/8 scale single action in 22/22WMR and offered in two versions, a "Peacemaker" with fixed sights and for all intents a clone of the full size peacemaker. It was also offered in a "New Frontier" flattop with micro sights. I had to sell the one I got from dad when jobs went south and kids started college. Lo and behold, today, in comes a guy with a plastic box and inside is a New Frontier with both cylinders. The case hardening was faded with very light pitting in the concave areas. I asked him where he got it and he told me he bought it from an older guy from a town nearby some years back and needed money for, of all things, college for the kids. I had sold mine to a guy from that same town. I called home and asked my wife to look in 'the book". Same serial. I made him an offer, he accepted and now I am going to clean, take a little #5 wool and oil to the pitted spots and take my old buddy out for a trial.
Now there is a 22 convertible in the safe for each of the boys, one gets a Colt, the other gets a Ruger.
Hope it shoots as well as it used to. Sometimes the old saw that no good deed goes unpunished is just plain wrong.

Great story, glad you got it back!

 

[shootstraight57]

PapaG

With my phone (a Motorola Droid), I take a photo, email it to my laptop, download it, and then drop it in the inbox of my imgur account. Takes all of about 3 or 4 minutes (took me longer than that to take the photo). Came across this article on the then "new" Colt New Frontier .22 while looking through some of my old gun mags; thought you might like it.

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My wife has had hers since she's been a little girl. Her father picked it up some years ago and gave her the handgun. Still have the original box and both cylinders.
She loves to shoot those 22 mags.

 

[Ironhand54]

My brother is a cop. About 20 years ago he had a CJ student doing an internship in his department. The kid was short on money and had a 22 to sell. It was a nice Ruger Mk II with a bull barrel. I didn't have a 22 so I bought it.

Skip ahead about 13 years and my brother gets a call from a Lt in the nearest big city PD. Seems he is that same CJ student. Does my brother remember the pistol and is there any chance he might know who has it?

The gun was a gift from his father and he had regretted selling it for years. He desperately wanted to buy it back. We set up a meeting and I sold it to him for about what I paid for it initially. What else could I do? To me it was just a pistol, to him it was priceless.

IronHand

 

[PapaG]

Back in our gun shop days which ended when dad passed in '79, one of the newer revolvers to come out from Colt was a 7/8 scale single action in 22/22WMR and offered in two versions, a "Peacemaker" with fixed sights and for all intents a clone of the full size peacemaker. It was also offered in a "New Frontier" flattop with micro sights. I had to sell the one I got from dad when jobs went south and kids started college. Lo and behold, today, in comes a guy with a plastic box and inside is a New Frontier with both cylinders. The case hardening was faded with very light pitting in the concave areas. I asked him where he got it and he told me he bought it from an older guy from a town nearby some years back and needed money for, of all things, college for the kids. I had sold mine to a guy from that same town. I called home and asked my wife to look in 'the book". Same serial. I made him an offer, he accepted and now I am going to clean, take a little #5 wool and oil to the pitted spots and take my old buddy out for a trial.
Now there is a 22 convertible in the safe for each of the boys, one gets a Colt, the other gets a Ruger.
Hope it shoots as well as it used to. Sometimes the old saw that no good deed goes unpunished is just plain wrong.

 

[200Apples]

Holy Cow... between my love for single actions, rimfire, centerfire, the original post, the latest posted picture from PapaG and Iron Hand's story, I think I'm a little choked up.

Win/win for all concerned!

 

[PapaG]

My first posted picture. I choked me up. Being born in the first half of the last century makes me less than techno friendly.

 

[PapaG]

Let’s see it

Scroll down. I got it.