Std issue barrel length, not cut down? I have five in my collection (Thanks, Dad) three seconds in .45, two in .44-40-- Dad worked on a cattle ranch in Wyoming in late 1920's- when a ranch hand was paid $30 month and "found"- meaning room and board-- and the payday poker games meant someone wanted to sell his "Hogleg" for $10 cash money to 'tide him over" until the next time the "Eagle Flew"--most of the ones he bought for that sum back them were used as hammers, and mainly shot to dispatch broken legged steers or the occasional snake or coyote-I also have a 1851 Navy Cap and Ball and an 1860 Army Cap and ball- the later in .44 cal, the Navy is the "pipsqueak" .36 cal--all well worn, but like any Colt- all shooters--
My Army General of all generals- George Smith Patton Jr- shot 4 of Pancho Villa's desperadoes, included Villa's second in command- in Mexico -from horseback and while moving-- the four came from around a barn, while Patton's men were deploying armed with 1903 Springfields-- 4 shots, four dead bandits from a moving horse- no wonder General "Black Jack" Pershing called him, fondly- my Captain Sure-Shot- they came back to Ft. Bliss with the four dead cabrones draped over the hood of a Ford Model T--Patton could have carried the then new Browning designed Colt 1911 in .45ACP, but he stayed with his SAA Army .45 issue sidearm--
Many of the quotes from the 1970 Movie with George C. Scott as Patton were true, my late first father-in-law was a S/Sgt. in his 3rd. Army, and as he was fluent in German, was on Patton's staff roster as a NCO in charge of captured German soldaten-- and he told me the line about "Only a cheap pimp in a New Orleans Sportin' House would carry a pistol with a mother-of-pearl set of grips- his were Ivory--
