Who made this SA.............

[bobwright]

I am on the Single Action Revolvers FaceBook page, and a man there has posted a photo of a Single Action that I've not heard about before, and looking for information...............

The revolvers is a western styled Single Action, .357 Magnum, and is reputedly made in Britain, but now out of production. The photo is not too good but from what I can discern: The barrel appears to be 4 5/8"~4 3/4", and the gun looks all blued with brass trigger guard and backstrap. Grips are dark wood and one piece style. Appears to have a wide trigger, and the front sight is very small, minuscule, in fact. The cylinder is non fluted, and there is a pair of annular groves near the front of the cylinder, and a pair flanking the cylinder locking slots.

I have never heard of any English made Colt copies before, and am curious as to what it might be, and about what years it was to be found.

Bob Wright

[cubrock]

Got a link or picture? I can't find it on the group, but there is more than one single action group on FB.

[magnumwheelman]

The lines around the cylinder sounds familiar

[JM]

Jaeger?

[bobwright]

Well, is my face red! These are blank firing guns made for quick draw and re-enactment work.

www.facebook.com/trinityguns13/

Bob Wright

[bobwright]

Oct 12, 2019 21:47:55 GMT -5 cubrock said:

Got a link or picture? I can't find it on the group, but there is more than one single action group on FB.

This is the site:

www.facebook.com/groups/378968746243450/?epa=SEARCH_BOX

Bob Wright

[cubrock]

Oct 13, 2019 21:37:06 GMT -5 bobwright said:

Oct 12, 2019 21:47:55 GMT -5 cubrock said:

Got a link or picture? I can't find it on the group, but there is more than one single action group on FB.

This is the site:

www.facebook.com/groups/378968746243450/?epa=SEARCH_BOX

Bob Wright

Thanks. I've never seen one of those before.

[bobwright]

This further correspondence:




Bob Wright

[bradshaw]

Bob Wright.... as I don’t do facebookWhile in Italy, setting off dynamite on the the outskirts of Rome, I was taken on a tour of a warehouse full for movie props. Literal tons of World War II surplus rifles, pistols, machine guns, etc. Many of the full auto ordnance had a washer welded inside the muzzle, presumably to help blanks work the action. Some of the pistols likewise. Which caused me everafter to look at muzzle of autoloaders in movies. In he cowboy section of the warehouse, sixshooters----all or nearly all Italian copies of the 1873 Colt----didn’t need a washer with a BB hole in the front, although some may have had it. I saw no propane guns; the ones I handles were for firing blanks of various discreet. Somewhere along the line, some unscrupulous director switched from black powder to smokeless, to lose a great beauty of old westerns.

I would not want to fire live ammo in some of the cowboy guns I handled in the Italian warehouse, although I expected their collective condition much worse than I handled. Truth be told, they may approximate many which passed through an American era. Indeed, the Peacemaker is one of those guns which doesn’t need a trigger to fire. Break some little spring in a modern auto and it is out of action. As long as the mainspring works, you could break every spring in the Peacemaker, including the bolt spring, and still fire the pistol. Align chamber under topstrap and drop the hammer. That’s still better than a Pepperbox.
David Bradshaw