USFA Picture Thread !!!!!!

[zac0419]

With CraigC's picture of his beautiful ivory stocked USFA I started looking for a USFA picture thread and couldn't find one. I wonder if you guys could help me out. I always thought it was a very sad day when they closed their doors.

Rodeos, Bisley's, Nettleton's, and everything in between. Just no Zip Guns, it's too painful...

My brother just bought his first one, a 7.5 inch wood stocked 44 special (marked "44 Russian and S&W Special" if JT reads this) and I promise to chime back in later to post a picture once it's received. 

[CraigC]

I'll start but even with the four I've got, I'll cry when bushog posts his array of Bisley Flat-top Target models.

My first was this early USPFA that apparently, has never had its picture taken by itself.


Second was a blued 12/22 that has since been fitted with one-piece walnut.


The third was this .38Spl Rodeo II that has since been fitted with ivory polymer.


Pre-war .44Spl

[towboater]

Very nice!!! I'd love to have one of the 12/22's



Here's my two consecutive numbers.

[seancass]

This thread is a great idea! I've drooled over a couple USFA's at Cabela's recently, too bad they want $3k each! (don't know the caliber)

[lynchburgsam]

My best one.

[cmillard]

wow!!!!!!!!!!!

[texagun]

[Boge Quinn]

OK, here goes - I've been needing to do a "family portrait" anyway...

Clockwise from 12:00:
Bisley Target 44 Special, 7-1/2"; Flattop Target 45 Colt, all-blue, 5-1/2"; Rodeo 45 Colt with factory CCH hammer, 4-3/4"; Sheriff's Model 45 Colt with factory-antiqued finish (box is marked "CUST" finish), 3"; Shopkeeper's Model 45 Colt with factory CCH hammer and Alan Harton one-piece ebony stocks, 3-1/2"; Shopkeeper's Model 45 Colt, all-blue, 3-1/2"; Sheriff's Model 45 Colt with factory ivory-colored stocks, 3"; Turnbull Engraved 45 Colt, 4-3/4"; SAA 44 Special with factory CCH hammer and Ultra-Ivory stocks, 4-3/4"; Nickel-finish 45 Colt, 7-1/2"; Omni Snubnose 45 Colt, 2"; and last but not least, Shootists 20th Anniversary 44 Special with one-piece presentation-grade walnut stocks by Tedd Adamovich (Blu Magnum), 5-1/2".



Bisley Target 44 Special, 7-1/2"



Flattop Target 45 Colt, all-blue, 5-1/2"



Rodeo 45 Colt with factory CCH hammer, 4-3/4"



Sheriff's Model 45 Colt with factory-antiqued finish (box is marked "CUST" finish), 3"



Shopkeeper's Model 45 Colt with factory CCH hammer and Alan Harton one-piece ebony stocks, 3-1/2"



Shopkeeper's Model 45 Colt, all-blue, 3-1/2"



Sheriff's Model 45 Colt with factory ivory-colored stocks, 3"



Turnbull Engraved 45 Colt, 4-3/4"



SAA 44 Special with factory CCH hammer and Ultra-Ivory stocks, 4-3/4"



Nickel-finish 45 Colt, 7-1/2"



Omni Snubnose 45 Colt, 2"



Shootists 20th Anniversary 44 Special with one-piece presentation-grade walnut stocks by Tedd Adamovich (Blu Magnum), 5-1/2". Also features (as did all the USFA Shootist sixguns) a Belt Mountain #5 base pin, serial-numbered to the gun.

[mike454]

Turnbull engraver, persinger ivory:

Flattop 45:

[Boge Quinn]

Beautiful sixguns, Mike!

[mike454]

Thanks Boge! I have a number of others I bought from the factory over the years, but in retrospect they're all the same. I really like the variety you have managed to assemble.

[Jamey Worrell]

In the words of Bobby Bowden, "dadgummit" Boge. That is a seriously fine collection of USFAs, especially the Bisley Flattop. I was talking with USFA about ordering one about the time they closed up shop, and went with a Gallagher-custom Ruger Bisley instead. Hoping to go to auction next year for an authentic Colt Bisley, but in the meantime, I can drool over your USFA

[Boge Quinn]

When I first started hearing persistent rumors about USFA shutting down production, I started snapping up all I could while the gettin' was good. Even so, it took a couple of years, some help from a close pal, and a pile of greenbacks to land that Bisley Target. Same deal with the Omni Snubnose - I looked for one of those for about seven years, finally talked a friend and brother into trading me the only one I have ever seen.

The Shootist 44 Special is, for obvious reasons, one of my most treasured sixguns.

[JCW64]

Flattop Target in 38 W.C.F.

[swamprat]

My only USFA; a previous owner tried to make it look like a Colt with deep dish medallion ivories from Nutmeg: