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Remembering in my stash of odds and ends there was a single. Not only was I holding a "real" Colt SAA but a Hard-rubber grips with plastic ones resembling mother of pearl. Only thing un-original about it was someone had replaced the factory (Later I dated it as being made in 1964.) The 45 with blue/case color finish, 5-1/2" barrel, and of second As we met he unwrapped from an oily rag a pristine Colt 45, or most anything besides a genuine Colt The docks and bring $100." I did but expected him to show up with a Then to my utter astonishment one payday Friday after work heĬalled my house and said, "If you want that Colt meet me back at Weeks went by and he never did, so I thought he was just blowing

To at least bring it with him to work someday. "generation" and lastly it wasn't for sale. Not nickel-plated and didn't understand what I meant by To say he didn't know what color case hardening was but the gun was Long." (He held his fingers about 6" apart.) Then he went on You want for it?" You see, I may have never seen a real Colt SAA,īut I knew something about them because I had certainly read a bunch Length? Blue and color case hardened finish or nickel plated? What do "What caliber is it? First or second generation? What barrel Talking about." I began to rapid fire question Jesse May, Jesse here says he owns one of those cowboy guns you're always One afternoon on the loading docks Butch was talking to one of the He shared my fondness for shooting, butĬouldn't understand why I was pre-occupied with a "cowboy That summer job I worked alongside a high school friend named Knew if only a Colt SAA would fall into my hands, all would be right in Regardless, as so often was the case in my younger years, I just That was in southern West Virginia, where Colt Single Action Army Hustling freight on the docks of a local storage and transfer company.

Back inġ968 as a summer job between my first and second year of college, I was The summer of 2008 marks my 40th year spent studying, collecting,Īnd above all shooting the Colt Single Action Army revolver.