So many opportunities wasted out there for using these old guns for more than collecting. I took the Colt Bisley 38-40 and a Colt Burgess 44-40 gopher hunting yesterday....
HOW IS THAT GOPHER STILL IN ONE PIECE? I HAVE SHOT JACKS WITH MY .45LC AND IT PUNCHES A CLEAN HOLE THRU AND THRU. DID HE DO CIRQUE DU SOLEIL FLIPS WHEN HE GOT HIT?
So many opportunities wasted out there for using these old guns for more than collecting. I took the Colt Bisley 38-40 and a Colt Burgess 44-40 gopher hunting yesterday....
That is a fine-looking long barreled Bisley! Not many of those 7-1/2" were made over the 17 or 18 years of Bisleys. View attachment 701743
You do know your single actions. There weren't many 7 1/2 inch colts in either configuration and i like those long barrels. I had it and the Burgess out again today for another run at gophers...
You do know your single actions. There weren't many 7 1/2 inch colts in either configuration and i like those long barrels. I had it and the Burgess out again today for another run at gophers...
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I am like you with interest in the 7-1/2" barrels. Most of the early Colt SAA's that I saw had the barrels cut off. After moving to Dallas, I got my first 45 x 7-1/2" at A. D. Hodges gun shop, an 1883 Colt with 1-piece walnuts.
So there is your Colt Burgess. A round barrel rifle with nice wood. The Burgess seems to have a very smooth action on levering it. But I have never shot one.
Are you out near Lubbock, with all of those gophers?
I am quite sure Triumph is out of Montana.
I to am a fan of the 7 1/2 inch .38 W.C.F.
So far they have only been used on whitetail deer but I'll bring one along to Fort Benton to try on a charging bull prairie dog.
I can say I never ever heard of a 38-40 until I bought my first Colt SAA in that caliber that was made in 1905. I learned it had a nice recoil and isn't a .38 afterall. I fell in love with it and though the barrel is a sewer pipe it still rings steel plate at 25yrds with some impact! I even take the old SAA out on open carry duty in gun belt from time to time. I think I read that the 38-40 has regained some popularity among the Cowboy Action Shooting crowd, I don't know for sure but it certainly surprised me. Great to see your tools at work!
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