[RdrBill]

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[chaosrob]

There is plenty special about it. very nice, and early i would presume by the two tone. I love mine as well.

 

[cubrock]

Yep. A very special gun in my book. My favorite Colt double action, especially those early ones with full checkered stocks and two-tone finish.

 

[j38]

Beautiful! The 3-5-7 seems to come up on this site more often these days - and for good reason. Thanks,

Jerry

 

[Chicago]

Nice. Wish I would have jumped on one of these a year or two ago.

 

[smoothguy123]

Your thread shows tells me you must have a lot of background in this topic. Can you direct me to other articles about this? I will recommend this article to my friends as well.

 

[smkummer]

My first double action .357 chambered Colt was a Colt .357 6". It had cold blueing on it and was bought for about $250 back in the early 90's. While I was "cleaning" it up for a "proper" application of additional cold blue, I discovered that the outside of the frame was a matt finish (now I know this to be the dual-tone finish). Upon firing it, I quickly discovered how accurate it was over most any handgun I had at the time. I later acquired the correct full checkered stocks for it for about $30 and it got traded for a mint 2 1/2 nickel lawman after about 10 years of good use(the mint 2 1/2 nickel lawman was sold to a dealer for full blue book price about 5 years ago). I am on about my 4th .357 model and this one is going nowhere now as the word is out and I would never be able to replace it for what I paid.

 

[ussmanlovede36]

I like that gun as well, mine is from 1957. nice looking colt you have and I like those rocks. the rocks here are red and they break easily.

 

[ohiobuckeye]

Sometimes called the "pre-Python".....

 

[cubrock]

Sometimes called the "pre-Python".....

With good reason!

 

[LEO918]

Blue stone is valuable to Apache.

 

[kenhwind]

Nice. Wish I would have jumped on one of these a year or two ago.

Me too!
We stopped in at the local gun shop that I have been wheeling and dealing with for a decade plus, and they had a Colt .357 like this one. The overall outside was not as nice as this one, but the bore and chambers were excellent. I shrugged it off, figured it'd be there, almost called to have them set it aside, and when we went back: Gone!

 

[ohiobuckeye]

With good reason!

Sorry...couldn't resist tossing out the "pre-python" comment. The pre-python term, calling stocks grips, referring to Government models as 1911s, etc., usually brings a stern lecture from at least one or two of our anal retentive curmudgeons....

 

[mypython]

pre python