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I am going to make a bold (and, likely, controversial) statement:
THE COLT 357, WITH FULL CHECKERED COLT-MEDALLION STOCKS, AND 4" BARREL, IS THE FINEST HANDGUN EVER PRODUCED BY COLT.
While the color on the photos of the subject Colt 357 is all wrong, the revolver appears to me to have its original finish. However, that is really hard to determine, since we cannot judge the color of the revolver's finish. I do not see other indicia of refinishing.
IMHO, this 357 is original, and apparently wears the original stocks or, at a minimum, the correct style of service stocks.
I happen to prefer the 4" barrel to the 6" barrel, and my favorite stocks are the target stocks - the Colt full checkered stocks, with silver Colt medallions.
Nonetheless, IMHO, any high condition Colt 357 is a fantastic revolver. These are really great, highly accurate target revolvers, great trigger pull, and suitable for anything for which a revolver is used.
In the past couple of years, these Colt 357s have been rapidly escalating in financial value, as people now recognize these guns to be quite superior revolvers. IMHO, the Colt 357 is actually quite a bit better than the renouned Colt Python. I am not a fan of the full underlug, nor do I like the rib on top of the barrel, as both of those features only unnecessarily increase the weight of the revolver and are quite useless.
Next year, the price of this particular Colt 357 will seem like a real bargain, as more people learn what great revolvers were manufactured under the moniker of Colt 357. Next, and soon, Colt Trooper 357s (particularly the early ones) are going to enjoy (suffer?) a similar run-up in price. These are simply my opinions, and I regularly get reminded by my family that I can easily be wrong.
THE COLT 357, WITH FULL CHECKERED COLT-MEDALLION STOCKS, AND 4" BARREL, IS THE FINEST HANDGUN EVER PRODUCED BY COLT.
While the color on the photos of the subject Colt 357 is all wrong, the revolver appears to me to have its original finish. However, that is really hard to determine, since we cannot judge the color of the revolver's finish. I do not see other indicia of refinishing.
IMHO, this 357 is original, and apparently wears the original stocks or, at a minimum, the correct style of service stocks.
I happen to prefer the 4" barrel to the 6" barrel, and my favorite stocks are the target stocks - the Colt full checkered stocks, with silver Colt medallions.
Nonetheless, IMHO, any high condition Colt 357 is a fantastic revolver. These are really great, highly accurate target revolvers, great trigger pull, and suitable for anything for which a revolver is used.
In the past couple of years, these Colt 357s have been rapidly escalating in financial value, as people now recognize these guns to be quite superior revolvers. IMHO, the Colt 357 is actually quite a bit better than the renouned Colt Python. I am not a fan of the full underlug, nor do I like the rib on top of the barrel, as both of those features only unnecessarily increase the weight of the revolver and are quite useless.
Next year, the price of this particular Colt 357 will seem like a real bargain, as more people learn what great revolvers were manufactured under the moniker of Colt 357. Next, and soon, Colt Trooper 357s (particularly the early ones) are going to enjoy (suffer?) a similar run-up in price. These are simply my opinions, and I regularly get reminded by my family that I can easily be wrong.
