<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by WS23:
Sorry but I disagree with both of you.
Those simulated stag factory stocks for the Single Action 22 Colts are quite common and readily available. Check e-bay. I see them all the time. Here is one such example that just ended yesterday! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39425&item=7162796666& rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
You likely won't go a couple weeks without seeing a set up for sale. I have seen them sell for as low as $19.00! Just keep your eye open and don't bid them up too high like the set in the link above. There will always be another set up for sale. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Thank you for both of your replies. I have checked with the two items on ebay. The grips are there, one set sold the other set is for sale. For now, I am going to try a repair job on the grips I already have. This is a financial decision. I have a pristine Colt New Frontier with 4 1/2" barrel in .22 cal. I find myself shooting this one lately when I go out plinking with my grandson.
I mentioned my fondness for the Colt '62 in an earlier post. I began dating my wife in 1962. We were juniors in high school. We married in 1965 and will celebrate our 40th anniversary in August of this year.
When we went on cheap dates, I used to take my original Frontier Scout pistol, buy 2 boxes of cartridges at 1.75 each (3.50 for 100 rounds). We would then go out to the coal mine stripper pits and shoot cans. My salary which was minimum wages at my part-time job was 1.25 per hour in those days. Gas for cars was about .22-.23 cts/gal. and I still had to budget closely.
Later, I discovered the challenge of shooting rats at the stripmines. The coal mining industry left spoil banks after taking out the coal. Their idea of reclamation was to plant rows of pine trees along the roadways to cover the spoilbanks facing the traffic. People would drive back mining haul roads and dump trash and garbage at some of these places. This draws rats. At sundown the rats would come out and run their trails. The shooter wold stand in the trash and in the dark. He could hear them brushing against cans as they moved toward him. The object of the shoot is to hold a flashlight in one hand and a pistol in the other, listening to the sound of the rattleling of the cans as the rat approached. The shooter tracks the rats by sound, then when close enough, he flashes the light beam on the rat and fires at the same instant. The shooter has to be quick because the rat leaps for cover the instant he sees light. It took a lot of practice but I did kill several rats with this method and that old Colt pistol. My would-be-wife never went with me rat hunting.
I traded the Frontier Scout revolver for a hunting bow in 1969. I killed a 9 point, 165 lb. Pope & young Deer with that bow the same year. However, I have always regretted trading the Frontier Scout pistol. The bow was only 40.00 but I was married with a 2-year-old son and could not afford the price of the bow. I own a bunch of other guns now, but still have a fondness for the Frontier Scout pistols.
If my repair job on the Scout grips turns out well, I will post some photos with a description of how my trial and error method works out. Thanks again for your posts.
ReoRonn
