colt sxs's

[Milton Starr]

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

[Autumn Daze]

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

[Researcher]

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.