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Hate the word "clone" when referring to a revolver, sort of conjures up something distasteful in my mind.
I've always liked the western single action style of revovler, patterned after the famous Colt Single Action Army. Over the years I've put many thousands of rounds through my guns, mostly heavy .44 Magnum ammunition as well as .45 Colt. These have usually been Rugers, and those built up to suit me, with handsome wood grips and color case hardening. Might as well look good as well as shoot well.
I've only got one Colt Single Action, a customized Single Action Army .357 Magnum. Though do have, and prefer, New Frontiers, of which I currently have three. But also have a few foreign made copies or look-alikes. Now I've stated before that I can't tell from my targets which guns shot which groups. Every gun I've got shoots better than I can hold, and I'm a pretty fair shot with the handgun.
Now when I stick up for the non-Colts, I'm sort of made to feel like some kind of buffoon since my gun is not a Colt. Sure its not a Colt, never will be. But I've taken game critters which never questioned my choice of firearm for the day. Even quality is not that much different form one to the other. In fact there is more difference in quality between two Colts than there often is between a Colt and non-Colt.
Quality is nice, and a Colt is a Colt. But its at the target where it all comes down to count.
There. Said my piece.
Bob Wright
I've always liked the western single action style of revovler, patterned after the famous Colt Single Action Army. Over the years I've put many thousands of rounds through my guns, mostly heavy .44 Magnum ammunition as well as .45 Colt. These have usually been Rugers, and those built up to suit me, with handsome wood grips and color case hardening. Might as well look good as well as shoot well.
I've only got one Colt Single Action, a customized Single Action Army .357 Magnum. Though do have, and prefer, New Frontiers, of which I currently have three. But also have a few foreign made copies or look-alikes. Now I've stated before that I can't tell from my targets which guns shot which groups. Every gun I've got shoots better than I can hold, and I'm a pretty fair shot with the handgun.
Now when I stick up for the non-Colts, I'm sort of made to feel like some kind of buffoon since my gun is not a Colt. Sure its not a Colt, never will be. But I've taken game critters which never questioned my choice of firearm for the day. Even quality is not that much different form one to the other. In fact there is more difference in quality between two Colts than there often is between a Colt and non-Colt.
Quality is nice, and a Colt is a Colt. But its at the target where it all comes down to count.
There. Said my piece.
Bob Wright