colt sxs's
 

Any of yall here fans of colt doubles ?
I found a 1878 10 ga that looks 90% id say .the dealer said it doesn't have any pitting or rust . I particularly like these folks who run the store they are very nice people , easy to do business with .
it looks to have stout barrels. I need to take a break on buying vintage doubles :rotf:

Milton, please post photos of your new 1878.

well I havnt bought a colt yet I just want some opinions on them but If I find a hammerless parkers next id get that instead . I like the hammerless colts better, to me the have better lines . ive just been looking at a lot of different models

Milton, They are wonderful well built guns. It's a shame there weren't more of them.

Wallace Labisky had a series of articles on side-by-side shotguns in Shooting Times magazine back in the 1960's. Number ten in the series covered the Colt doubles. It was in the Shooting Times, Volume 7, No. 6, June 1966. I'm sure some of the dealers in books and paper that advertise in the Gun List can probably come up with a copy.

Don Hardin did an article on Colt doubles in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Four, Issue 2, pages 119 - 122.

Looking at the repro 1884 E.C. Meechum catalogue, they were selling off early Colt hammer doubles with no rib extension at a discount, and also showing the new version with a dollshead rib extension.

I don't own a Colt SxS and have never shot one, but I have begun to appreciate them. Some time ago I was in Dan Cullity's shop out on Cape Cod and he had a Colt SxS in for some minor work. I had him receive a little GHE 28ga for me and he give it a professional once over before I took position, so we were talking Parkers. Some where along the line he picked up the Colt and made some comment along the lines that he liked the Colt SxS the best of all American makers. He gave a few reasons, most along the line of how they are engineered.

Dan is a master gunsmith and does fantastic work, so his comment made a real impression with me. I had never given any thought to Colt shotguns before this, but since then I have been watching for them. I never seem to see them; they are far and few between in the places I frequent.

Colt 12 gauge Hammerless SxS
 

I'm at the Las Vegas gun show today and they have two that are just beautiful.:cool:

a local shop has colt #6666 in the wall behind the counter. i can't even get him to take it down to look at much less set a price.

nice looking gun from the outside

maybe I should consider buying it then seems like their highly thought of.
this particular gun is in the 8000 range serial # . if I bought it though id have to hold off a little longer for a parkers 10 ga . though maybe the colts are more rare ?

all those 6s don't make you superstitious lol ?

only if its just 3 of them :shock:

After looking at 3 different guns I think ill go with the l1 parkers if it still for sale after I get my ec green. I really like the shape of the pistol grip on the top lever hammer guns ive noticed its not like the grip shape of the lifters . its in good shape and a very good looking double

any parker is a good choice... but i love all old 10 ga s be it a beligum clunker or a prized parker...charlie

Haven't seen "reasonable" Colt hammers for awhile and then, as Larry said, two neat ones at the Vegas Show and a nice hammerless 10 ga. For those interested, Walter Kellog, sorry didn't get a card, who was a big Colt Lightening collector and is now retiring from the hobby, has a nice, lettered, factory engraved 12 ga hammer Colt for sale at typical DH cost. Larry Shelton, of Clabrough fame - he just finished a book on them - also has an engraved Colt hammer gun but one barrel looked out of round at the muzzle, at least to
me, which might be why it was priced considerably lower than what Walter was looking for.

1884 E.C. Meechum --

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1900 J.H. Johnston --

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I know 2 years ago it wasn't hard finding a 10 ga colt now you barely see them . Charlie im the same way about my sxs 10 gauges . Im falling in love with this grade 1 parkers though im looking at . May double up on payments on my ec green so I can go ahead and get a parkers. Charlie you have to see the Damascus pattern on the ec green barrels !

Have a friend with a extensive SXS collection. He's not a single maker collector goes for variety and quality. His opinion Colt is the pinnacle of American guns. Not sure I agree but do see his point based on lines fit and finish.

Bill

Check this out. Very cool for those who have not seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNwcybihH0

Mills Would you still hold out for a 8ga parker if you had a chance to aquire the Grover Cleveland 8ga. As a side note I can see charlies mouth watering over that gun.

Colt made one 8 gauge and that is it. I think the guns that are too expensive for anyone to afford are in museums now. Like the Invincibles

yep i wish old uncle grover would have left me that old 8 ga of his..i know he wanted me to have that gun but he forgot to tell them folks to give it to me...wishful thinking huh... the colt shotgun is one fine gun.. charlie

:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

when a member of my wife's family was doing family history she discovered that they can count him as a distant relative - a cousin, if I remember correctly

SO - see ya a the family reunion Charlie :bigbye:

We used ancestry dot com and was able to connect our family to Abraham Lincoln and Robert E Lee . its amazing what you can find by digging.

Charlie f you want pictures of that colt I can pm it to you. they will layaway it for 4 months for you :rotf: . I couldn't go that long without seeing my gun though .

yes it is amazeing what a fellow can find on who he s kin too...boy being kin to old ABE and LEEshould besome bragging rights...see you boys at the reunion...charlie

Charlie, I understood that the nephews called him Uncle Jumbo? ::)