What is your favorite Colt SAA clone? A friend of mine just bought a Standard Manufacturing SAA and I have to admit it's a beautiful, well done clone. But if I was going to spend 2K plus on a clone I'd rather hold out for the real thing. The Colt SAA has been my hands down favorite Colt for decades. The best IMO are the 2'nd Gen examples with their better steels. I have a few 3'rd Gen SAAs and they are not bad. I recently saw a current production one at a LGS and a Colt stocking dealer and the case colors were horrid looking almost like rust. Now most Cowboy Action shooters I know either shoot Italian clones or Rugers, and I can understand why as real Colts are to valuable to abuse. At least with the Italian clones you can shoot and holster them forever and not worry about hurting the value. Later I've been looking at the Italians and some are rather interesting to buy as shooters. The EMF Hartford Models seem fairly close and the older short lived AWA Peacekeepers are even closer. So close that Colt sued them and they only lasted a short time. Here are a couple I recently spotted. The Hartford Model even has the Black Powder frame. The AWA Peacekeeper I'm still trying to figure out what the grips are.
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mag318
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The USFA I had was a far better gun that either the 2nd or 3rd gen Colts I owned at the same time.
When I went looking for a clone I waited until I found a shooter USFA. I will probably get another Colt eventually but I wanted a gun that was sure to be mechanically excellent that I could put some wear on without worry.
OP's grips look like buckeye burl. I agree that the grips are a little busy for my tastes
When I went looking for a clone I waited until I found a shooter USFA. I will probably get another Colt eventually but I wanted a gun that was sure to be mechanically excellent that I could put some wear on without worry.
OP's grips look like buckeye burl. I agree that the grips are a little busy for my tastes
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Since I wrote this a few months ago I have since purchased the Standard Mfg. SA in my avatar, and sold my last Colt SAA. I might still get another Colt, but the USFA and now the Standard Mfg. are such good guns compared to the Colt's I've owned that unless I come across a good one at a fire sale price, I think i'll probably end up with an Uberti Model P in .44 spcl, unless I can find a Pietta in that caliber.
The USFA edges out the Std. in build quality by just a hair,
The Std edges out the USFA in the action, much lighter
The Std is a better shooter than the USFA, shooting to POA while the USFA is pretty far off.
I will say that I'm disappointed that both USFA and now Standard have gone the Uberti route and eliminated the ejector housing boss on the barrel. AFAIK Colt and Pietta are the only mfg's still using the boss instead of just drilling and tapping directly into the barrel like Uberti, USFA, and Standard do.
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