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 ?