Bedroom Nightstand since 1966

[EXNJCOP56]

Fairytails can come true it can happen to you.....Just thought I'd keep you Colt Guys and Gals looking for those once in a life time finds excited.
If you keep looking they still pop up! So I walk into a small Gun Shop here in MO and come across that Brand New Colt. My eyes just POP..Can I see it I ask? Is there a box ?....The Heart starts to PUMP...........How did you get it I ask...."OLD LADY CAME IN AND WANTED TO SELL IT" She said her husband just passed and she did't want it in the nightstand any more. He bought it new and never used it.



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I'am just still amazed. SO KEEP LOOKING

[JudgeColt]

What is the serial number range of the gun? The reason I ask is because that style of box was not in use in 1966. Assuming the gun and box are the same age, it would appear that the the original owner had it a while before it went into the nightstand.

[EXNJCOP56]

JudgeColt.....I've known a few Judges,,,,,,,,,What did a 1966 box look like? Bottom of box has serial# also the grips.... Remember the guy who was the grip guy that would go and match the grips to the gun being made and put the serial # on them before the UNION'S took over.....

[Frank V]

EXNJCOP56
Welcome to the forum. Original box or not, that's a pretty gun. Congratulations & thanks for sharing with us.
Frank

[EXNJCOP56]

Thanks Frank.....I think the Judge is 0.01882694 ( 4144 divided by 78)...It's the box....

[JudgeColt]

The charts show the gun as 1966 production. Obviously, the box is the original box. My recollection was that the black-bottom boxes had come into use in 1966. Apparently not, at least in the case of 1966 Detective Specials.

Since I missed on the correct box style, I am hesitant to speculate on whether the gun has the long butt or short butt. I think the short butts were in full use in 1966, but will wait to hear for sure. Which does it have?

[EXNJCOP56]

Judge I have been a ass man my hole life ....it's a short butt and has a nice roundness about it.....I may get to like you...I still have 2 get out of Jail cards...you are in the running...​

[JudgeColt]

(A)n ass man your (w)hole life? Wow!

That said, Colts are horses, not donkeys, and the short butt on a 1966 Detective Special is square so perhaps you do not understand the question. Look at the bottom of the butt (on the Detective Special in question). If you see only wood, the gun has a short butt. If you see the metal frame sandwiched between the wood stock panels, the gun has a long butt. The overall shape of the butt with the stocks on will be the same with either the short frame or the long frame. In the case of the short butt, the wood stock panels overlap the short steel butt frame to create the same overall length as found on a long frame gun.

I ask again, short butt or long butt?

[EXNJCOP56]

I said short butt.....I was a rookie in 1979 smuck...

[guy sajer]

Let's start again and move a little slower this time . We run a friendly house here . Language and name calling are left at the door .