Colt SP-1 1964

[Templar]

This is actually the second 1964 SP-1 that I've had, the first one I sold to a collector buddy of mine back during the AWB.

I had another buddy who's still in the industry hook me up with this one.

1964, first full year of production (they only made 23 in 1963), with original Colt 3x scope.

[ltdave]

did that come straight from the factory?

very very nice...

i was offered one back in 92 for $650 but before i could pay the guy he decided he wanted to keep it and retracted his offer...

again very very nice...

[JudgeColt]

Does the magazine have a numeral one (1) inside a circle stamped near the bottom on the side of the magazine? If so, is the "hook" on the numeral towards the bottom of the magazine or towards the top? If so, on which side is the numeral stamped? I have early magazines with all the variations mentioned. Two of them have a paper sticker over the numeral, but the printing on the sticker is obliterated. I have always wondered if the sticker was an original sticker that had some message on it, or was added by an owner before I got it in the 1970s. I could speculate that the sticker said "Alcoa" or something, such as the stickers on early Smith & Wesson Models 60 that say "Stainless Steel." Of not.

I note with interest that the manual is entitled "Sporter." I have always wondered just where the change from "Comanche" was made. My three-digit Sporter has the Comanche manual. (Colt was going to call these guns the "Comanche," but changed the name to "Sporter" after some small quantity of manuals was printed. Political correctness in 1964?) Obviously, the change was made somewhere between mine and this one. Someone once told me that only 500 Comanche manuals were printed. That does not seem right for a gun that would be in regular production, where productions would expect to be in the thousands. Anybody else have Sporter with a Comanche manual?

The USA scope is also rare. The manual looks like a reprint.