Fresh in from Kittery Trading Post.
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Well here it is. Short and simple range report: 8 cylinders of 158 grain wadcutters that I paid entirely too much for LOL gave me impressive accuracy for a snubnose in sighted, unsighted, supported, and offhand shooting. With support at slow fire most of the six rounds will touch each other's holes if you're up to it.
This piece is indeed "very clean". Wear is minor and consistent with moderate shooting with proper maintenance. I intend to continue that trend. Someone did paint a tiny dallop of red on the front sight and quite poorly. I gently removed it after cleaning with the soft side of an emory board. It took a while but it didn't damage that rich Colt bluing and it got that awful paint off.
Unfortunately the paint was covering a tiny spot or two of wear, but nothing I'm worried about as that spot is often worn on any size revolver with fixed sights.
And if you're going to paint your front sight, you should at least do it right and use White Out. Don't put paint on a Colt that is just wrong.:twak:
I have a new BUG as far as I'm concerned. Although one must be careful with ammo choices in a Colt snubnose, the overall performance of these guns is in my humble opinion significantly better than modern J frames in many ways.
First I personally find the trigger on most J frames to be entirely too heavy. Smooth yes, but too heavy relative to its size. I find it difficult to control the trigger well enough to pull it without shifting the postion of the entire gun noticeably.
For another thing the sight picture on these old Colts is a lot better. I know that with a gun like this the idea of using the sights is not exactly realistic, but if the option ever presents itself I want good enough sights to take advantage of it.
Now I'm not a slave to capacity, but this gun is not significantly larger than the 637 at all and yet holds 6 rounds next to the J frame's 5. In such a small gun that's meaningfully impressive.
The grips on this gun are also quite a nice shape. They don't conceal as well as boot grips but I think I'll keep them. The pinky shelf aids greatly in shot control.
Sure it's an anachronism in this age of scandium and fiber optic sights and +P loads, but I'm quite happy with it.
Well here it is. Short and simple range report: 8 cylinders of 158 grain wadcutters that I paid entirely too much for LOL gave me impressive accuracy for a snubnose in sighted, unsighted, supported, and offhand shooting. With support at slow fire most of the six rounds will touch each other's holes if you're up to it.
This piece is indeed "very clean". Wear is minor and consistent with moderate shooting with proper maintenance. I intend to continue that trend. Someone did paint a tiny dallop of red on the front sight and quite poorly. I gently removed it after cleaning with the soft side of an emory board. It took a while but it didn't damage that rich Colt bluing and it got that awful paint off.
Unfortunately the paint was covering a tiny spot or two of wear, but nothing I'm worried about as that spot is often worn on any size revolver with fixed sights.
And if you're going to paint your front sight, you should at least do it right and use White Out. Don't put paint on a Colt that is just wrong.:twak:
I have a new BUG as far as I'm concerned. Although one must be careful with ammo choices in a Colt snubnose, the overall performance of these guns is in my humble opinion significantly better than modern J frames in many ways.
First I personally find the trigger on most J frames to be entirely too heavy. Smooth yes, but too heavy relative to its size. I find it difficult to control the trigger well enough to pull it without shifting the postion of the entire gun noticeably.
For another thing the sight picture on these old Colts is a lot better. I know that with a gun like this the idea of using the sights is not exactly realistic, but if the option ever presents itself I want good enough sights to take advantage of it.
Now I'm not a slave to capacity, but this gun is not significantly larger than the 637 at all and yet holds 6 rounds next to the J frame's 5. In such a small gun that's meaningfully impressive.
The grips on this gun are also quite a nice shape. They don't conceal as well as boot grips but I think I'll keep them. The pinky shelf aids greatly in shot control.
Sure it's an anachronism in this age of scandium and fiber optic sights and +P loads, but I'm quite happy with it.
