Colt SAA

[Roundsworth]

Very nice! It has the 'Blackpowder Frame' and traces of finish in the cylinder flutes. The screw heads look pretty good, too! A real nice, unbuggered SAA will command a small fortune at an auction. Is there a factory letter? What is the caliber? The number one choice was the .45 followed by 44-40, 38-40, 32-20 and the .41. There were dozens more, but they are very uncommon, like the .22 RF and .32 LC, for example. Has the front sight been filed? This modification is certainly not uncommon. One of my favorite shooters was a 99% SAA in .45 Colt, made in 1964. I had 2 Cimarron Ubertis in .44 Special (my all-time favorite revolver cartridge), too. USFA's Rodeo in .38 Special was my last SAA. My hands do not tolerate ANY amount of recoil anymore, so the SAAs all had to go. Nothing fills the hand as nicely as a SAA, real or reproduction! A brand new Bearcat is my new plinker. Cheers!

[Bill Murphy]

Just like a Parker, a factory letter will add more than its cost to the hammer price of almost any Colt. Colt letters are expensive, but some are well worth the price.

[Old and Reliable]

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--