<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SEBCo:
Very nice, love those Ropers! Seems I rarely see this quality of Colt DA in the mid-west, and have only seen one other OMT in nickel finish and that one had been rode hard.
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SEBCo, I'm still waiting on a letter from Colt to confirm the nickel finish is original. It LOOKS like it to me, but we shall see.
I am a Roper nut. In fact, that's how I got into collecting Colts. I had a number of Roper-stocked guns from S&W (where he was VP for a while), but kept coming across these really nice Officers Models outfitted with Ropers (as well as with King sights, ribs, hammers, and triggers -- another passion of mine); and now I'm hooked on Colt D.A. revolvers, too, whether or not they wear Roper wood! (Like 256-MS, I think those full-checkered target stocks found on OMMs, early Pythons, and some early .357s are magnificent.)