( LIVE ON GUN BROKER ) 1963 Colt Single Action Army .38spl *RARE CALIBER AND FINISH with LETTER*
SPECIFICATIONS:
Model: SAA Early 2nd Generation
Serial: 31439SA
Date of Manufacture: Shipped on November 12th, 1963, to General Dynamics/Electronics, Tuslog Det. 3-2, APO 329, New York, NY, in a shipment of one gun.
Caliber: .38 Special
Finish: Nickel
Barrel Length: 7 1/2"
Optics/Sights: Blade Front and Frame Notch Rear
Stock/Grips: Smooth Wood
Action: Single-Action
Markings: Standard
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the Model P, Peacemaker, M1873, Single Action Army, SAA, ) is a single action revolver with a revolving cylinder holding six metallic cartridges. It was designed for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1873 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, today Colt’s Manufacturing Company, and adopted as the standard military service revolver until 1892. It is perhaps the most copied, fraudulently modified to replicate an original Colt SAA, than any other revolver made. At the beginning of World War II, Colt ceased production of the Single Action Army revolver to devote more time to filling orders for the war. When the war ended, no plans were made to revive the Single Action Army revolver as the design was seen as obsolete. However the advent of television and Western-themed movies created customer demand for the revolver, so Colt resumed manufacture in 1956 with the Second Generation line of Single Action Army revolvers.
These Second Generation Colt Single Action Army revolvers were produced from 1956 to 1974 and carried serial numbers in the range of 0001SA to 73,205SA. Due to the popularity of the television show, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Colt introduced the aforementioned Buntline Special as a Second generation offering from 1957 to 1974.
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