I picked this one up because it feels good in my hand and its never been fired.

This way I'll always have a new handgun. LOL

I am going to get the Colt Commander that my brother carried when he was in law enforcement. Not sure I'm going to shoot it either because he shot two armed bank robbers with it that had taken a hostage. They pulled a gun on the wrong guy.

So I guess I'll need a 3rd 1911 .45. LOL

I like .357s. I have 3 of them. A 640, a 28-2 and the 686.

I called the UHP this afternoon and I'm going to take that .44 into their main office in SLC Monday and let them have a look at it. The person I talked to seem pretty excited to see it.

 

That's a real piece of history. It looks a lot like the old S&W Military & Police .38. The army still issued the Model 10 .38s, with a much shorter barrel, to helicopter crews when I left in the mid-'80s.

 

Bought this a while ago. Was going to buy a Kimber, but my gunsmith convinced me that the Colt was made better. Colt Competition Series. Shoots nice, nice trigger. Seems much better made than the ones we had in the Army.

 

They used to have sales of the local police departments' and State Polices' pistols. Not sure if they still do that here. Father had a nice S&W .38 Special he got from the local force when they went to 9 mm.

 

That's sharp. Brother in law has one that I got to shoot. Very light trigger pull. Liked it but never got around to buying one.

 

They still have surplus sales. It might be where this one came from some time ago.

They told me today they haven't stamped UHP in them for many many years.

 

50 years before Kimber even made their first 1911, Colt had already made well over a million of them. They should know what they're doing by now. I like Colts. The 1911s made for the army were built to looser tolerances so they would always work, even when they got dirty. Most of the M1911A1s we had were 40 years old by the time the M9 was adopted, and they still worked.

Here's part of what Wikipedia says about the Colt 1911. In 1906 there were trials for the new service pistol. Of the six designs submitted, three were eliminated early on, leaving only the Savage, Colt, and DWM designs chambered in the new .45 ACP. These three still had issues that needed correction, but only Colt and Savage resubmitted their designs. A series of field tests from 1907 to 1911 were held to decide between the Savage and Colt designs. Among the areas of success for the Colt was a test at the end of 1910 attended by its designer, John Browning. Six thousand rounds were fired from a single pistol over the course of two days. When the gun began to grow hot, it was simply immersed in water to cool it. The Colt passed with no reported malfunctions, while the Savage design had 37.

 

I have a .38 S&W Safety too.

Cute little gun.

 

Never liked the break open design like that. Always felt like it wasn't strong enough. Nice looking pistol regardless of my doubts.

 

It was only $100. S&W made millions of them. I might not even ever shoot it. I just like it. LOL



Here's my other top-break pistol. Its a S&W Schofield and was manufactured in 1871. I keep it in a friends safe in SLC.

I'm waiting for the authentication letter from S&W.

It could be worth a grundle.

When they flip open they eject the spent shells. They were originally designed for the cavalry so they could easily flip them open with one hand to reload while on their horses.