Sunday Showcase Recap

Recap on The 8/11 Sunday Showcase

The Browning lever action rifles are synonymous with quality and craftsmanship, and the BLR stands at the pinnacle of their lever action offerings. Featuring an aircraft-grade aluminum receiver with a striking nickel finish and intricate high-relief engraving, it epitomizes elegance in firearm design. Built for functionality as well as beauty, it comes equipped with drilled and tapped mounts for scope installation, ensuring precision aiming. The stainless steel barrel is crowned for enhanced accuracy, while the Grade IV/V walnut stock and forearm showcase a glossy finish that reflects like a mirror. The pistol grip and forearm are sharply checkered for a secure hold, complemented by a rosewood fore-end cap and pistol grip cap with a silver spacer for added refinement. Additional premium features include precision adjustable sights, a top-quality recoil pad for comfortable shooting, and polished nickel sling swivel studs. This BLR White Gold Medallion in .243 Win caliber weighs 6 lbs 8 oz, boasts a 20-inch barrel, and offers a magazine capacity of 4 rounds, making it not only a work of art but also a highly functional and reliable firearm for both hunting and shooting enthusiasts.

The Remington 1100 is a gas-operated semi-automatic shotgun introduced by Remington Arms in 1963. The Model 1100 bleeds off-gases to operate the action through ports in the barrel near the fore-end. The gasses then drive a steel action sleeve that fits around the magazine tube and connects to the bolt carrier to the rear, ejecting the spent shell. A fresh shell is released from the magazine, which trips the carrier release, and the action spring in the stock pushes the bolt forward, picking up the fresh shell and loading it into the chamber. The Model 1100 can fire any 2+3/4-inch (7.0 cm) shell without adjustment in the standard models, and both 2+3/4 and 3-inch (7.6 cm) Magnum shells can be used interchangeably on the Magnum versions. As of 1983, it was the best-selling autoloading shotgun in U.S. history in dollar terms.

The Colt Single Action Army (SAA) remains an icon to American shooters. Due in no small part to its reputation as “the gun that won the West,” the popularity of the SAA “Peacemaker” continues to amaze its fans— including the manufacturer—and confound its critics. Yet, even a seminal design like the SAA can be improved to bring it up to modern expectations, and this is exactly what Colt has done. For collectors, Cowboy Action competitors, and casual shooters, Colt has introduced a new model of the Single Action Army revolver called the Colt Cowboy. The classic SAA remains in production at Colt as well. Essentially, the new Colt Cowboy revolver was a Single Action Army with an investment cast, steel receiver, a slightly more utilitarian finish, and a transfer bar safety system. These changes enable Colt to offer the new Cowboy model at a suggested retail price of about half that of the standard SAA Peacemaker. From any distance, it is difficult to distinguish a Cowboy from an SAA because Colt has gone to great lengths to preserve the style, balance, handling, and flavor of the classic Peacemaker. For example, cocking the Cowboy model produces three distinct clicks in a similar manner to the salutary four clicks of the Peacemaker; the half-cock loading position of the hammers remains the same. Other common features include barrel length, caliber, sights, grip shape, cylinder size and fluting, flat mainspring, and frame shape. Both models have a time-honored, case-hardened finish on the frame.

Comparing a Colt Cowboy side-by-side with an SAA, minor differences in design begin to emerge. For example, the high-polish blue on the Peacemaker’s barrel, ejector shroud, cylinder and grip frame has been replaced with a medium-polish blue on the Cowboy. Another change is in the Cowboy’s hammer, which is smaller than that of the SAA with a slightly different shape and horizontal grooves cut into the spur instead of the cross-hatching of the Peacemaker. The black plastic grip panels of the Cowboy share the rampant Colt logo with the SAA but lack the U.S. seal and motto.

The legacy of the Colt Government Model is well known. From the battlefields of Normandy to the jungles of Vietnam, this combat-proven firearm has tirelessly served our Armed Forces for more than a century. This pistol features the legendary Series 70 firing system, making it a faithful reproduction of Government Models manufactured prior to World War II. This pistol also features an arched steel mainspring housing and a short steel trigger. A standard safety lock, standard grip safety, and spur hammer complete this authentic throwback to Colt semi-automatics of days gone by.