![]() ![]() Fit and finish were excellent, with outstanding polish and bluing to the barrel, cylinder, back strap and trigger guard, and with excellent polish and attractive case colors to the frame and hammer. We’ll get to that again when we discuss the Colt sample. The hammer required by far the least effort to cock of the four test guns, yet all rounds fired perfectly, so it clearly had enough spring force. It apparently had lots of internal work done at the factory to get its easy-cocking hammer and fine trigger. This Italian-made six-shooter was the slickest-actioned of the lot, almost too slick for some hands. We shot them all with two types of commercial ammunition by Ultramax and Black Hills, and with one of our handloads of Unique powder with a cast bullet, assembled on our Dillon RL 550 press. All the guns had hard-rubber grips (or plastic that looked like it) except the Uberti, which had a one-piece walnut stock. Finishes in three cases were blued and case-colored, the odd man out being the Rodeo, which had glass-bead-blasted steel and matte bluing over that. Rodeo (about $500), a Uberti-made 5.5-inch-barrel marked “Regulator” (about $400), and a third-generation, current production Colt Single Action Army with 5.5-inch-barrel barrel (about $1,700). The guns are a 4.75-inch-barrel American Western Arms Peacekeeper ($835), a 4.75-inch-barrel USFA Mfg. ![]() 45s, plus an original Colt from 1904 in a sidebar. In this report we look at four new single-action. The game of Cowboy Action Shooting must surely be one of the main driving forces behind the continued onslaught of fine and finer single actions, but the fact remains that these revolvers are viable sporting, hunting, and even self-defense firearms, and serve their owners in as many capacities as they did in the 1870s. He died in 1862.) The company is still making the old thumb-buster, and a host of companies are producing clones of it in what seems to be ever-increasing numbers. (For those who wonder, Sam Colt never saw the Model P. One hundred and thirty years ago Colt’s brought out its Model P, also known as the Single Action Army revolver. ![]()
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