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$75 for a 1956 or 1957 Colt Huntsman with two original mags (plus Leather Holster, leather belt with 22 bullet loops, and a leather mag pouch; no box or papers though)! Will have to clean up the leather though as there were still cartridges in the belt loops in there for so many years they rotted green and were falling apart (the bullets). Supposedly been sitting for over 19 years in the closet. Original oils so dried up I had to use carb cleaner and lots of plastic brush scrubbing just to get the dried chunks out of the crevices and interior.

Had a tiny bit of surface rust in the slide serrations, and worn bluing on sides of barrel but otherwise great condition including bore. The slide truly feels like it rides on oiled glass. Pretty amazing how this old pistol makes every other slide on every other pistol I have feel like crap compared to how this thing glides. Gonna be a shooter as I'm not a collector.

Haven't had a chance to actually shoot it yet, but if the cleaned out action and shiny bore is any indication, it should shoot very nice. These guns have a awesome reputation for accuracy and reliability as even the lower end Woodsman models like the Huntsman were all hand made and fitted (which is why they stopped making them as it was too expensive). I do like my Browning Buckmark, but this old Colt oozes quality, even though it was the cheaper version in the Woodsman lineup. For $75, it was a absolute no brainer purchase!





BTW: Any tip to clean the green out of the leather bullet loops?
 
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Damn! $75?? You stole it!


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Congratulations.

Deal of the week.

Please post pics after you clean it up.

Oh yeah, a range report is also in order.


Excellent score!!!


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Nice! Love deals like that. Thanks for sharing.
 
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Fantastic score! Congratulations.
 
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Great find! Good on you to bring it back to health.

I have one that my Dad bought back in the day. It stayed in his dresser until I found it as a child.

The only issue that I have had with it is that the firing pin hits light sometimes and there is a failure to fire.

I have the original box and there is just a slight bit of holster wear at the end of the barrel from a cheap nylon holster that I had used before I new better.

Since I received it from my Dad, I love the gun. I will pass it down to one of my sons.
 
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Nice!




 
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Nice find!


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That’s a dandy. You got the whole outfit for about the price of the two extra magazines.
 
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“Any tip to clean the green out of the leather bullet loops?”

I’d try saddle soap. And a soft brush, like an old toothbrush. It may take a couple of “lather, rinse, repeat” cycles. Try not to get the leather soaking wet. Let it dry outside in the sun if possible.

Nickel plated cartridges (like CCI Stingers) hold up a little better in cartridge loops, but I really don’t think its a good idea to store ammo in leather loops over the long term.
 
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Great pistol deal...
Did you try and talk him down from $75.00?
 
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Great pistol deal...
Did you try and talk him down from $75.00?


Actually, it was a work buddy, so I gave him an extra $25 over the $50 he was asking for. Long story short, it was a "wife demands it's riddance NOW" story..
 
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Great find! Good on you to bring it back to health.

I have one that my Dad bought back in the day. It stayed in his dresser until I found it as a child.

The only issue that I have had with it is that the firing pin hits light sometimes and there is a failure to fire.

I have the original box and there is just a slight bit of holster wear at the end of the barrel from a cheap nylon holster that I had used before I new better.

Since I received it from my Dad, I love the gun. I will pass it down to one of my sons.


You can get a new spring kit (recoil and hammer spring to fix the light strikes) for $8 from Wolff springs.
 
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That is the SF buy of the year, so far, anyway!
Classic pistol.


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Originally posted by Rinehart:
Great pistol deal...
Did you try and talk him down from $75.00?


Actually, it was a work buddy, so I gave him an extra $25 over the $50 he was asking for. Long story short, it was a "wife demands it's riddance NOW" story..


Glad I’m not married to a moron.
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Good score- it’s worth more than $75 for the parts if it won’t go bang.




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Fantastic find!


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Kind of amazing how similar my High Standard is to it.
 
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Congrats - you flat out stole that. Excellent pistol worth a lot more. Your friends wife is a dipshit. You can thank him for taking ones like that out of the pool, so the rest of us don't have to waste our time at some point.

Get it on paper, knocking over cans or busting small game and report back!
 
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Oh man, the ol' "I don't want the guns in my house anymore, just get them gone" routine. Ouch.

Your purchase tops this, handily, but it's relevant to the topic. I had a customer once who mentioned she had rescued her grandfather from an abusive elderly care situation, but with him came "a bunch of guns." She was a young single mother and had never been around them and was terrified that her kids would get into them. I offered to help her evaluate them and sell them online. She agreed.

She came back the next day with a little wicker laundry basket and a rolled up carpet. In the carpet was a Bubba'd Enfield No4 and in the basket were a half dozen pistols. Most of them were pot metal junk Saturday night specials ( Lorcin, FIE, a few others I've never heard of), but one of them was a beater 2" roundbutt Smith 10-5 with a trigger as buttery smooth as my Python without the DA stacking. She said "I decided I just want to be done with them. You can have them." I wanted to get her to go to an ATM with me so I could at least give her a couple hundred bucks and she flat refused. Then she said "Merry Christmas. Accept the gift!" It was a few weeks before Christmas, so I did. The pot metal junkers now no longer exist (amazing what you can do with a belt sander), the Enfield got turned into most of a P229, and the Smith... I really wish I hadn't sold. Frown


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