Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact
NitroExpress.com: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies


*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

Shooting & Reloading - Mausers, Big Bores and others >> Handguns

DarylS
.700 member


Reged: 10/08/05
Posts: 27006
Loc: Beautiful British Columbia, Ca...
Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber
      29/04/20 04:00 AM

Quote:

Quote:

After my cousin died, I ended up with the Ruger Blackhawk I sold to him back in about 1975 - no, not a .45(I wish), but a .357 with 4 5/8" bl.
It is very accurate to this day with either .38's or mangleums.
The SA's are fun to shoot, especially with the 4-click hammer.




Have shot one of those as well.. the one caliber I would really like to use a bit is the .41 Mag...

A friend had a 5" Smith model 57 I believe.. gold dot front site..V notch rear.. man that thing was accurate.. still checking around a bit.. factory ammo for the .41 seems to be a bit scarce however.. but that's alright..reloading is fun..




Ah yes- the M&P model 57, in .41 Mag. I was thinking along that line when I phoned Elmer in Salmon, Idaho & spoke to him about it. He suggested it would be fine as a policeman's gun, but the 4" M29 would be better as I was a handloader (he's asked about that point), thus I went with the .44. I had previously purchased a .41 Mag on a Ruger Blackhawk in '72 in Smithers and tested it. Seems to me, it had a 6" bl. With factory lead 210gr. (I think or maybe 220gr.) it shot 8" at 100 yards off bags. I took it back as it wasn't accurate enough to satisfy me and bought a Super Black hawk in .44 with the 7 1/2" bl. That one did 5" with green box 240gr. gas-checked SWC and was OK. Seems to me, I sold that one to my bro in about '74 and we cut the bl. to 4 5/8. That made it quite handy and no less accurate. We both preferred shorter bls. on handguns back then. I still do.

--------------------
Daryl


"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

Post Extras Print Post   Remind Me!     Notify Moderator


Entire topic
Subject Posted by Posted on
* Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Ripp 27/04/20 09:36 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber NitroXAdministrator   03/05/20 01:23 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber DarylS   03/05/20 02:34 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber DarylS   27/04/20 09:45 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber tinker   27/04/20 10:44 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber FlatTop45   27/04/20 11:47 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Ripp   28/04/20 12:07 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber DarylS   28/04/20 02:24 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Ripp   28/04/20 02:56 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber DarylS   29/04/20 04:00 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Louis   30/04/20 04:46 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Ripp   01/05/20 07:44 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Ripp   05/05/20 12:45 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber DarylS   05/05/20 02:31 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber 93x64mm   05/05/20 08:00 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber NitroXAdministrator   05/05/20 11:08 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber DarylS   05/05/20 02:03 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Ripp   05/05/20 11:10 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Marrakai   06/05/20 10:03 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Ripp   06/05/20 11:58 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Homer   08/05/20 07:43 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber DarylS   09/05/20 02:44 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber szihn   13/05/20 12:48 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber DarylS   13/05/20 01:59 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber szihn   13/05/20 11:21 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber tinker   13/05/20 11:39 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber szihn   13/05/20 01:31 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber szihn   13/05/20 01:33 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber tinker   13/05/20 03:27 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber DarylS   01/05/20 08:16 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Louis   01/05/20 05:31 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber jaguarxk120   03/05/20 12:57 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber NitroXAdministrator   28/04/20 04:02 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Ripp   29/04/20 12:05 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Wayne59   28/04/20 05:03 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber FlatTop45   28/04/20 11:53 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber Rule303   28/04/20 11:04 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber 3DogMike   28/04/20 11:55 AM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber xausa   28/04/20 12:51 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber tinker   28/04/20 01:51 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber SharpsNitro   28/04/20 12:58 PM
. * * Re: Colt Single Action Army-- 45 Colt Caliber lancaster   27/04/20 01:51 PM

Extra information
0 registered and 254 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator:  NitroX 



Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 10724

Rate this thread

Jump to

Contact Us NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5


Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact


Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved