Yep! You are correct. Courtesy of Mr. Jim Martin...I won a contest, the holster and slide was the prize. Here is a photo of the naked gun if you are interested.
There goes one of those Merncikle rigs carrying my 3rd gen. 44 special up the East Marvine trail in northwest Colorado. I bought that Colt from Don Wilkerson years ago and it has a lot of miles on it.
Here's one I got at the vegas show. Serial 3731 450 boxer with 7-1/2" barrel shipped in a 100 gun shipment to London January 5th 1874 in what is said was the first shipment to Von Oppen. It ended up in Durban, South Africa and has the dealer name on the butt of the walnut stocks.
My first ever 2nd Gen SAA New Frontier, I had a chance to pick this up at a great price and 3 members helped me to pull the trigger with their opinion and I Thank them. It's the 188th New Frontier made in 1962 and is .357, no box or papers but a very well kept gun, could not be happier, will shoot.
Ok here we go - A proper shoot. Losing light - i had to get the camera up to 500 iso.. good thing this is a decent DSLR to maintain shutter or these pictures would look completely different.
Both are third generation. The 7.5 is in 44-40 with factory imitation Ivory. The blue is discoloration is the temperature change. Both revolvers are 98%+
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