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It's a good day to let some .22 Officers Models out to breathe. Arranged by date from 1930 at the bottom to 1957:
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Officers Model 22s
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Michael,
Interesting point on the nickel finish, but with all the variations and custom work Colt did with the OMT line I guess I'd be surprised if they didn't do some in nickel. I recently sold an OMT 22 with a custom hammer that the buyer thought was work done by King, I'm using the funds to upgrade but it looks like you've gotten all the really nice one's already!
Scott
Interesting point on the nickel finish, but with all the variations and custom work Colt did with the OMT line I guess I'd be surprised if they didn't do some in nickel. I recently sold an OMT 22 with a custom hammer that the buyer thought was work done by King, I'm using the funds to upgrade but it looks like you've gotten all the really nice one's already!
Scott
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Mike: Beautiful guns in your post, as usual. On the subject of nickel OMs, I seem to recall a few years ago that the CCA magazine, the Rampant Colt, had a nickel OM on the cover. I don't recall if it was .22 or .38, but it was a beauty like yours. Charlie Flick
Really handsome.
Surely makes my old OM's look ratty.
I never see the Roper grips except with the thumb shelf. Am envious of the simpler design Ropers...not to mention the full checkered Colt "Target" grips.
Thanks for sharing.
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Surely makes my old OM's look ratty.
I never see the Roper grips except with the thumb shelf. Am envious of the simpler design Ropers...not to mention the full checkered Colt "Target" grips.
Thanks for sharing.
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<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.)
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.)
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