Any 1950s Target Model style N-frame.   Doesn't matter if it is a 3 1/2 to 4 inch or a 6 to 6 1/2 inch.

Thin tapered barrels on an N-frame, perfect combination.   Heavier 1955 Target Models are nice as well but they don't speak to me in the same way.


I have a Model 29-3 that I'm going to have rebarreled one of these days if I can find a 4 inch barrel from a 24-3.   Will be a Mountain Gun without the gawdy stupid "mountain gun" engraved on the side of the barrel.

I've got a 38/44 Outdoorsman that was my grandfather's gun.   It started off the love affair with N-frames.   No good pictures on this computer and I'm in the process of moving.   Original gun, probably 90%, with original grips, with original box.

It's a keeper.

Not old school but I'll play.

Doesn't matter. They'd look good back in the olden day.
All I can say is NICE!

Not to pick nits, but isn't that model 10 at least 1980 or newer? The Barrel is not pinned.

What is that? Im not normally into revolvers but I would love that thing!

OK then, one more..

Letters to 9 May, 1917 Shipped to W.H. Hoegee Hardware Company in Los Angeles, CA:
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YES!!! Love it! Let's see some more!!!!

No Smiths, only Colts.

1897 vintage, original nickel:










And, the obligatory Python pic:








Nick

1897 and the original nickel!!!!!!!!!!!
Where did you get that Colt???????? Did you get the letter on it?

No letter, was given to me by my grandfather, who bought it used when he was 17.

The circa is derived from the serial #173xxx.

When my daughter gets old enough, it passes on to her.



Nick

Outstanding.
I hope she values it as much as you do.
Firearms as family heirlooms is not too common anymore.

You guys are rubbing my nose in it posting the pictures of all this great old revolvers.
A picture is great, but the stories behind the guns are important too if you know them.

A+ on the model 10s!

Old school?

Here is a 1912 vintage Colt .45 (re-nickeled).  Is that old school enough?



No?  OK, here is an original 1878 vintage 1877 Colt .41 double action Thunderer.  Is that old school enough?



No?  OK one more,  here is an 1857 vintage 1851 Navy Colt .36 "campfire" gun with a 1877 vintage barrel:



Are those old school enough?

Oh, hell yes those are old school enough!
Tell us the stories behind them, where you acquired them, etc.

Not much to tell, I got all of them in the mid-90s.  I got the 1912 vintage first generation Colt SAA when I got into SASS shooting.  I traded an old Ballard rifle for it at a gun show in Denver.  It was refinished before I got it.  The custom one piece grips are inlaid maple with an ebony star and an ivory? dot.  There is still an old piece of rawhide between the main spring and grip frame, the way they used to do a trigger job.  It is a sweet shooter!

The 1877 Colt Thunderer also came from a gun show in Denver.  It is all original and in working condition, though I have not fired it.  It was made in 1878, the year Colt came out with the larger and stronger Colt 1878 double action.  Original nickel and grips, never refinished.  The .41 1877 Colt is the "Thunderer", the .38 is the "Lightning".  The double action is very delicate on these, but this one works well.  By historical accounts, Billy the Kid carried a Thunderer similar to this for some of his "career".

The 1851 Colt Navy revolver was made in 1857!  It is called a "campfire" gun because it has a mis-matched barrel.  Apparently back in the day, people would sit around a campfire and clean their firearms.  Apparently, they would sometimes be put back together with parts from their buddies' guns(?).  At any rate, the barrel was made in 1877, but the rest of the parts and serial numbers all match.  There are some dings on the butt where it looks like someone had used it as a hammer, maybe tacking up a wanted poster?  I got it at a gun store in Boulder, Colorado.  Of all the guns I have, I wish this one could tell me its story.  It is a civilian gun made before the civil war.  Imagine what it has been through!

Not very aesthetically pleasing, but this is the last of my 'old school' wheel guns.  This was my grandpa's 38 S&W Pocket DA Revolver.  He died in '68 when I was a todler.  The gun was passed to my mother with instructions to give it to me when I 'became responsible'.  It was put away in a dresser drawer and forgotten.  I finally received it and the story, many, many years later- well past my becoming of a responsible age.  Needless to say, my daughter already knows the story and we keep the pistol in the safe to never again be forgotten...

Best Regards, Ron
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That's cool! I really like hearing those type of tales and the pictures of the guns!

Two of mine.

1928 Colt Army Special,cal .38 Special,with a sharp friend:

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Little guy,S&W 642-1 .38,no lock:

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That's a VERY appropriate way to describe that pic!!!!!!!!

Very, very nice!!! Really old school!
What's the story behind that old revolver?

It's a 4th change 1905 that belonged to my great grandfather, that got passed down to my father in the early 70's, then to me a year ago. It's serial puts it at 1927, and it's had the pearl as long as my dad can remember. It was badly pitted from daily carry/neglect, so my dad had it refinished by some Houston smith when he got ahold of it. I'm not sure what type of finish it has; matte hard chrome?

I think it is what they call "electroless nickel" finish. I have that type of finish on a Series 70 Colt done by Armend Swenson years ago.
It is basically a nickel-boron matte finish that holds up really well.
You have a nice gun and a family keepsake. I don't care if someone says the collector's value is ruined. It is YOUR FAMILY gun with a history of it being restored to as close as new as was possible by someone who hold's it dear.
That makes it worth a lot to future family members IMO.