Is a Colt Model -New Service- worth $650

[40-82]

I couldn't agree more. That's also why I treat my sks with less respect. It was most likely used to kill our own soldiers. However, i know it goes boom every time. The ghosts that haunt that gun have never been upset with me, so i continue to remember them when i handle or shoot it. If the world was coming to an end, the new service 1917 army would be on my hip and the sks on my shoulder. They are as reliable as I can think of.

I was on an operation at an Adviser with the 4/48 ARVN Infantry. We had an American tank company working with us. We got into a tunnel complex, and I tried to persuade the Battalion Commander to search the tunnels.

"No! Too dangerous!"

"But Dai Ui, the Americans do it all the time."

"You're an American."

"Gulp!"

So I was sitting there, about to go down into the tunnel (and not very happy about it) when a big black hand came over my shoulder with a SAA. "Go on, Sir. I'll cover you."

Later on, I talked to that sergeant. That SAA had been issued to his great great grandfather during the Indian Wars, and carried up San Juan Hill. Other members of his family carried it in WWI, WWII and Korea. And those ghosts watched over me in that tunnel.

Now that is both a story and a memory. It took a special breed to go down into those tunnels. Nothing points in the dark for a quick shot like the old single-action army, not even the New Service, although it's very good. A few times I've managed to kill 'possums, coons, varmints like that with the New Service in conditions too dark to pick up the sights.

 

[40-82]

These are really big guns. The frame is larger than a S&W N frame. They can be awkward to shoot unless one has fairly large hands. Notice how much larger the 45 Colt New Service is than a S&W Triple Lock.--Driftwood Johnson (I didn't manage to work the quote function quite right this time.)

That's not just any triple lock, that's a rare triple lock target. When I read the writers of the period: Keith and McGivern, they all seem to prefer the Smith & Wesson, maybe because that pair both had small hands, but the Colt at $16 outsold the triple lock at $21. I have to admit as much as I love the New Service, even today I'd pay a five dollar premium for your triple lock target over the typical New Service. An elegant assemblage of fine revolvers, it does my heart good to see them.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Now that is both a story and a memory. It took a special breed to go down into those tunnels.

In this case, all it took was a big mouth, who talked himself into a corner.

 

[mag1911]

I attend the Wanenmacher Show in Tulsa twice a year and it's the only place I ever see many New Service pistols. A total junker won't ask less than $650 and the decent shooters are well over a thousand. Anything pristine or rare will ask many times that much.

I have a 1909 and 1917 for the military history. I did buy an early 1930s .45 Colt in excellent condition 5 or 6 years ago that was targeted. It was very accurate but didn't really fit my collecting interests. I sold it cheap to a friend at my cost on the condition that I get first right of refusal for what he paid me for it if he ever decides to sell it. I always do that when I sell something cheap to a friend but this is the only one I would definitely buy back.

 

[bannockburn]

mag1911

I sold it cheap to a friend at my cost on the condition that I get first right of refusal for what he paid me for it if he ever decides to sell it. I always do that when I sell something cheap to a friend but this is the only one I would definitely buy back.

Good policy to have. I too have always done that when selling to a family member or a friend. Has always worked out very well that way.

 

[Gordon]

In this case, all it took was a big mouth, who talked himself into a corner.

And how them little guys were not really into the fight
Looking back and seeing what is today . I should have let them go the way they wanted, their country today is not too much left of where our's wound up
Today I serve a local VIETNAMESE Catholic Monastery ! I speak their language, Vietnam isn't China and the commies are not cracking down on the Catholics over there anymore like they did first 20 years FWIW.
I have some "duty guns" most are no revolvers, I have shown the Webleys and S&Ws and Colt revolvers before. I don't think I showed my .455/.45 Colt reblued properly RCMP gun yet tho. I'll get to it. I was a Federal Agent for a short period 40 years ago and was issued an S&W Model 19 2.5" gun , my privately purchased one after I left I still have . Here are pictures of my RIP Uncle Gil's duty NYPD Gold Shield det gun, a Colt Police Positive Special and a rare .S&W .357 NYSP gun he purchased from a Major in that dept . who ordered them for testing and kept and sold a few off to friends after they cancelled the contract. After my Uncle retired from 30 years with NYCPD he started as a Captain in NJSP and bought this 520 in 1980. I don't think he ever fired it before he passed in 1981 .

 

[Vern Humphrey]

My second tout I was a company commander in Northern I Corps. Along the coast, there are rolling hills and waist high grass -- what a cattle ranch that would have made!

 

[Gordon]

My second tout I was a company commander in Northern I Corps. Along the coast, there are rolling hills and waist high grass -- what a cattle ranch that would have made!

Where I was too ! For a project associated with Spyglass Alpha. Hmm maybe we could do that along our border, they had ma
duece on each top rail tho with those old crew srved size Starlight's on them

 

[Vern Humphrey]

A lot of that stuff worked, but you can't do what we used to do -- the courts would stop us from firing artillery.

 

[ACES&8S]

I am going to wait for a better one, didn't get a pic of it but just looking at all the pics I have
seen of this model revolver = this one is much worse than any I have seen.
But it is now on my -must get list.
Sorry I didn't come thru with pic or buy it but the atmosphere there wouldn't have allowed a pic.
Thanks for all the info.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Buy it and I'll give you $700 for it -- or give me the address of the guy who's selling.

 

[Gordon]

A lot of that stuff worked, but you can't do what we used to do -- the courts would stop us from firing artillery.

8 inch self propelled with the first computer fire solutions.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I remember finding a good RON position, and seeing the ground covered with Firecracker duds.