How Much That You Know About The Colts

["DoubleAction"]

How Much That You Know About The Colts, Without Looking Up On The INTERNET For Your Information ?

This is only a for random general information .

["DoubleAction"]

How about me telling you, how much I know about The Colts ;D

It all began as child, when I was 4 years old, watching Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and Hoppalong Cassidy. I wasn't much for Gene Autrey, after I saw him making the switch to the city, driving cars, talking on telephones, running for political office, and a half dozen other things. I might been a child, but I wasn't stupid.

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My introduction to the Colts was with this pistol .

It took me many years to finally acquire this piece of hardware.

[TMan]

Funny when I read your first post in this thread, I never thought about revolvers, but my mind immediately went to the 1911. I think I only have one Colt revolver, but more than one 1911 (lost track - getting old sucks).

["DoubleAction"]

TMan; I played Cowboy, Cops & Robbers, long before I played Army.

Next Stop on my list, is Colt's Detective Specials, and Then the 1911's.

["DoubleAction"]

I don't know if it was Colt's shrewd marketing skills that won the favors of the American toy makers, of the fifties & sixties, or the fact that Colt had rightly earned it's place in the American History books as the most recognizable firearm manufacturer in this Nation, and probably the world.

I'm just thankful for living a world where Colt was considered to be a common household name, without the orange barrels tips attached.

It was a time in this nation when we were cultivated about firearms

We was taught by the toys we played with

I had one of these Mattel rigs, and when I grew up, I went in to a gun store to purchase my first shoulder holster, and the counter guy asked me if I needed help. I told him that I grew up in the '50s & '60s ;D

My Colt Detective Specials

[MLB]

I have to get some better grips for my M29. Those specials do look nice.

["DoubleAction"]

In 1996, when I was ordering a part for my Commander, the guy at EGW asked me was the pistol was a Series 70 or a Series 80; I didn't know and he didn't know how to tell me.

The correct answer could be found by looking at the serial number, underside of the slide, and the hammer engagement as you squeeze the trigger.

Up until I received my first computer, nobody that I knew was into the 1911 pistols.

["DoubleAction"]

[blueglass]

WE never had any of those Commercials up here at all as I think those Toy guns would have sold like hotcakes here as well. I am definitely old enough to well remember the 50's. Even now as a old guy I still would like to own all of them. Pic Big smile here.

["DoubleAction"]

blueglass; During the '50s & '60's, Our toys guns would be would called Non-Firing Replicas by today's standards.

...The Colts was a household name during the '50s and '60s, There was Dart Guns and Squirt Guns molded from the actual Colt 1911 Semi-Auto pistol. You could unscrew the grips, from the Toys, and install actual grips from the Real 1911.

.....I referred to The Colt 1911 has The Colt Semi-Auto .45 acp when I was growing up.

....The reason why many people referred to the Thumb Safety, as the Slide Safety, was because, Crossman ( The Marksman Repeater) had a pellet pistol that was modeled after the Colt 1911.

[MLB]

That thing was a piece of junk... and I loved it.

["DoubleAction"]

Sept 13, 2012 7:47:58 GMT -5 MLB said:

That thing was a piece of junk... and I loved it.

....When we had BB Gun battle games, I would let a kid on the other side borrow mine, and I would climb up a tree with my rifle. ;D

[blueglass]

I actually still have a Daisy BB pistol which you break the barrel to pump up. Its good for the trigger practise and I only paid $20.00 for it used at a gunshow here last year. I use a cardboard box to shoot at and to collect the BB's as well. I can re-use them this way many times over.

["DoubleAction"]

...I had a replica of the Colt Single Action Army, that when you cocked the hammer back, it would load another BB into the chamber. This was a spring powered BB gun. It was good for short distances.

["DoubleAction"]

...Learned very fast that The Marksman Repeater pistol was made for shorter distances, but, it was a reasonable priced pistol.

[blueglass]

Now that I think about it I actually did have one of those Colt 45 Cap pistols that took the thin red firing caps which you stuck on the back of the bullets. I don't re-call it shooting any projectiles but it did look like the real thing and had good weight to it as well. Never had the holster for it but had fun anyways as a kid with it.