“My heroes have always been cowboys ...and they still are it seems”...many decades ago my father owned a Colt .45 Frontier model.... I spent many happy hours in front of a door mirror, practicing spins and trying to beat the guy in the mirror to the draw.. Got pretty good at it too!
In those days, that Colt would have likely cost (pre-owned) somewhere around 50-75 dollars.... Those days it seems are LONG gone.
I have been longing for another like or similar to the one that he owned for years. True Colts are way too cost prohibitive for me, and finding a reasonable price on a clone that IS a clone, and not just a 'sorta-looks-like-one' version, ain't real easy either. The one I finally chose is pretty close.
Rugers, and even new Colts, though fine revos in their own right, aren't really clones, a 3-screw 1st gen (smokeless) SAA by Uberti/Cimarrron like the one I purchased last year, is in almost in every way an exact copy of what they originally were... Cimarron in TX imports a bare-bones Uberti, then fits and finishes, and ships it from there.
Mine is deep blued, except for the frame which is case hardened...and polished wood grips The action is butter smooth, 4 clicks on the hammer (like the original), the trigger which they claim to be set at 2 to 2 ½ lbs, is VERY light to the touch.... almost to the point of being a 'hair-trigger'.
I ordered mine in .357mag, the same cal as my edc SD 2” K-Frame. Then last Nov, I bought a Rossi R92 20” round barrel, also in .357. That's my 'Red Ryder' carbine, and a nice match for the 4 3/4” 'Frontier' SAA. Also have a good cartridge belt and holster, a high ride, and not one of the Hollywood hang-downs. The same rounds, will shoot just fine in any of the three.
So that's about it... It ain't Dad's Colt, but in so many ways, it's WAY better than the one he owned back then. And I'm pretty sure he would have approved.
FLc