Colt Frontier Scout, yea or nea?

[bannockburn]

C&L

Now that's what I'm talking about! And with my favorite barrel length too!

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Gordon]

1972 New Frontier .22 G-series

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Got the same ! A great shooter !

 

[Gordon]

I have a 9
" barrel Ruger Old model with fixed sights with alot of finish gone, usually has the .22 mag cylinder which works well in that long barrel. It is much better IMHO than the non steel frame Colts. I also have a Stainless 200 year Single 6 6" convertible that is about as nice as the steel frame Colt in build quality.

 

[Master Blaster]

The one I owned was a 1973 peacemaker with fixed sights. Nice case color frame. It was an Arizona Ranger commemorative model. I had the display case. As a shooter my super single six was a much much better gun. The colt was much harder to cock, the tiny narrow trigger blade was horrible. The sights were difficult to see and aim. The gun was a 7/8 scale saa, but it weighed just as much as a full size SAA, but felt smaller in the hand. I did not like to shoot mine as I had much better. 22 revolvers.

It took me a while to sell it for what I paid $450.

Look at a single six they are much better guns.

 

[single-sixshooter]

The Frontier Scouts were not made by Colt. They were made in Germany by the same company that made them for FIE and some other companies. I picked up one, an FIE, for $80 a few years ago. The ejector rod was broken.
When I went to order the part the guy told me that he was out of the FIE parts, but he had parts for the Colt. I told him that would be fine. I just had to pay a few dollars more.
Heritage bought the rights to the revolver and started building them under the Rough Rider name. It's basically same gun with a few small changes like the hammer block safety.
The Colts had a higher quality finish, other then that they were the same gun that was sold by FIE. But you will have to pay to ride the Pony.

Based on the similarities of the Frontier Scout and it’s German,Italian and later US clones, I suspect that Colt assembled Frontier Scouts using castings and other parts made for them Sauer and Tanfoglio, who would later export complete guns to the US were later sold under the FIE, Excam, and Buffalo Scout names among others. By importing parts and assembling them in the US Colt could advertise them as Colt made. After the 68 gun control act FIE would assemble the guns in Florida and market them as the TA-22, TA-76,Buffalo Scout, E-15 and a host of other names. Today’s Heritage Rough Rider appears to be the same design and possibly built on the same tooling.

 

[single-sixshooter]

Another thing Im noticing is that it appears the Zamak framed guns have pinned barrels, probably because they are pressed in like the Heritage. Im assuming the aluminum framed guns have threaded barrels?

Another thing Im noticing is that it appears the Zamak framed guns have pinned barrels, probably because they are pressed in like the Heritage. Im assuming the aluminum framed guns have threaded barrels?

Yes, they had threaded barrels, based on YouTube videos I’ve seen of them being disassembled. I’ve read that some of the early Frontier Scouts were not pinned and their were problems with the barrels working loose due the different expansion rates of steel and aluminum. Pinning the barrels solved the problem. The various German and Italian clones mostly used the pinned barrel as well.

 

[Speedo66]

So, for less money than the zamak Colts, and for non pressed barrels, it looks like the Ruger Wrangler may be the way to go.

If you can find one. lol

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

So, for less money than the zamak Colts, and for non pressed barrels, it looks like the Ruger Wrangler may be the way to go.

If you can find one. lol

Well, the Wrangler grip frame is still Zamak....

But there little doubt, its a better value than one of the old Frontier Scouts.

 

[Speedo66]

Well, the Wrangler grip frame is still Zamak....

But at about 1/3 the cost of the Colt it's more palatable.

 

[single-sixshooter]

So, for less money than the zamak Colts, and for non pressed barrels, it looks like the Ruger Wrangler may be the way to go.

If you can find one. lol[/QUOTE
Yes they are. On Monday I pick up my third Wrangler(bronze) picked up a Silver one first, and then found a black one. Have a little over 3000 rounds through the silver one and about 1000 through the black one. They work every bit as well as the Single-Six. If there is a down side to them it’s that they don’t take magnums, but considering the price difference on LR vs Magnum, I don’t shoot those. Dry often anyway. I’m limited to an indoor range and 25 yards the LR does everything I need to.

 

[single-sixshooter]

Well, the Wrangler grip frame is still Zamak....

But there little doubt, its a better value than one of the old Frontier Scouts.

From what I’ve read, Ruger says the frame is A380 Aluminum while the grip frame and ejector rod housing are an unspecified zinc alloy, most likely Zamek or something very similar.They handle and shoot just like a Single-Six

 

[Oregontrail]

New member here, glad to be a part of this forum.
Been enjoying this for awhile now and thought I would share with you fellas my first Colt. It’s a keeper, built in 1976 and it shoots as good as it looks. Buntline 7 1/2 barrel convertible