Female Shooters
Americana, Guns, Revolvers, Target Shooting

Category Archive 'Revolvers'
27 Aug 2016
World’s Oldest Revolver, 1636 not 1597Georg von Reichwein, Guns, Hans Stopler, Revolvers, Technology![]() You are thinking “the Colt Patterson of 1836,” aren’t you? This video and stories all over the Internet attribute this 8-shot very early flintlock revolver on the basis of the maker’s mark to Hans Stopler of Nuremburg, who apparently began working in 1597. They then date the weapon to 1597, despite the plaque listing its owner as Georg von Reichwein dated 1636. 1636 is early enough for me, making the date of the production of the first revolver an even 200 years before Samuel Colt’s Patterson model. Hat tip to Guns America. 20 Aug 2015
Colt DA Revolver Prices Going Through the RoofAmerican Rifleman, Colt, Colt Python, Gun Collecting, Guns, Revolvers, S.P. Fjestad![]() S.P. Fjestad, the author and publisher of the Blue Book Of Gun Values, now in its 36th edition, in this month’s American Rifleman, discusses the current frenzy on the part of dealers and collectors to snap up out-of-print, post-WWII Colt Double-Action revolvers which is driving prices higher and higher to out-of-sight levels.
Read the whole thing. Fjestad fears that the party is going to come to an ugly end before very long, when the current tulip-craze for post-WWII Colt Double Action Revolvers exhausts itself as supplies emerge to satisfy all real existing demand. I think he’s right, and I even have personal difficulty in identifying with the enthusiasm of this group of collectors. I once handled a Python, admired its rich blue finish, and its smooth Swiss-watch action. The price was reasonable back then, but I already owned a .357. My preference had always been for Smith & Wessons rather than Colts, and I thought it was kind of Mickey Mouse that Colt had a special production line to produce pistols that operated as nicely as the typical S&W. What killed the deal for me was that vent rib. I knew perfectly well that a ventilated rib on a 6″ revolver served no practical purpose whatsoever, and I decided that I’d be embarrassed to appear in public carrying a revolver with a useless vent barrel. People would think I was the kind of dumbass who didn’t know any better and thought a vent barrel was cool. I just couldn’t bring myself to own one. I guess all that proves that theories can cost a fellow a whole lot of money. ![]() Feeds
|