Apologies again for having missed the earlier existent post prior to posting my little attempt at humor with my earlier post in The Lounge concerning a Glock cowboy gun. I tried checking for one but either missed it in the search results or it didn't show up due to my wording in the query.

I REALLY don't consider a Glock to be a cowboy gun. At least not now. A hundred years from now, who knows.

After all, what is a cowboy gun? I offer the broadest possible definition that ANY gun carried by someone broadly recognized and identified to be a member of that class of individual widely known as a " cowboy " might well be considered to be a cowboy gun

While I agree that the Colt SAA and all of the Colt single action permutations will forever be known as" the ' cowboy gun , there were certainly others.

Having at one time in the distant past owned [and sold} both a double action Colt Thunderer and a single action Smith and Wesson Schofield revolver I believe by my definition and usage they could be properly called cowboy guns as well.

My Thunderer was an interesting at least to me gun, having a 5 or 5 1/2-inch barrel , blued steel finish in good condition , original grips, a bad hammer spring and a lanyard ring .The finish was in good condition other than the left side of the barrel which had a lengthy patch of corrosion which appeared to have been allowed to exist as the rest of the gun had none. The guns having been found in New Mexico, I sent off a letter to Colt with what I THINK was then the fee of 25 dollars for a record check.

My usual luck ran true, and the response came back along the lines that the records from this time had been destroyed in a fire at Colts. It mentioned that the lanyard ring with the short barrel was probably a custom order, but no records were existent.

Recalling my Grandfather's advice to never play another man's game and having no expertise then or now in antique firearms , I sold both to a friend for what I had in them.


From WIKIPEDIA



Colt M1877 - Wikipedia

Colt M1877 - Wikipedia
The M1877 was designed by one of the inventors of the Colt Single Action Army (M1873), William Mason, as Colt's first attempt at manufacturing a double-action revolver.It was the first successful US-made double-action cartridge revolver, [2] and was offered from the factory in two basic finishes: nickel-plated or a blued with a case-colored frame.
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The "Lightning" was the favored personal weapon of famous Manchester (United Kingdom) Victorian detective, and then head of CID, Jerome Caminada. Old West outlaw John Wesley Hardin frequently used both "Lightning" and "Thunderer" versions,[2] and the "Thunderer" was the preferred weapon of Billy the Kid, even carried by him when he was killed by Pat Garrett in 1881.[6][7][8] Doc Holliday was also known to carry a nickel-plated "Thunderer" in his waistband as an accompanying gun to his nickel-plated Colt Single Action Army. Both revolvers had ivory or pearl grips



Smith & Wesson Model 3 - Wikipedia


Many of the Model 3 Schofield revolvers served in the Indian Wars, with reports of them in use as late as the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War. Like the other Model 3s, they were also reportedly popular with lawmen and outlaws in the American West and were reportedly used by Jesse James, Bob Ford (who used one to kill James),[5] John Wesley Hardin, Pat Garrett, Theodore Roosevelt, Virgil Earp, Billy the Kid, and many others. The S&W No. 3 revolver was famously used by Wyatt Earp during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral with the Clanton Gang.[2]

My 4 digit sub 6000 serial 1956 Colt.

OP, those are definitely some unique ones that you had. That double-action Colt has always intrigued me...I wonder how many guys back at the end of the single-action era saw those come out and pooh-poohed them like my generation did when we were all carrying metal-framed hammer-fired pistols and plastic striker-fired guns came on the scene.

I've never handled either of the models that you owned, but I have handloaded the .45 Schofield cartridge quite a bit for my .45 Colt Blackhawk. It's more efficient than light .45 Colt loads and very accurate, and was the only load that I could get to hit to point of aim in the Taurus 450 that I briefly owned last year.

I've never owned a "real" cowboy gun. All of my single-actions are adjustable sight Rugers, and my lever-actions are Marlins from the '50's or later, which are a departure from the more traditional Winchester designs. While not appealing to the purists, I think both of those platforms are incremental improvements over the older stuff. Operation is similar to the end-user, but the internal mechanics and metallurgy are superior.

SAA 1st gen w long flute cyl and carved ivory stocks.

MARS AND DOUBLE

Gentlemen those are some beautiful guns, classically deadly

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They surely were and I have more than once regretted getting rid of them. Needless to say, I never shot either of them, but I frequently held them wishing somehow to get a glimpse of where they had been and what they had seen.

Real cowboy guns? I'll play!

Here's my 1878 Colt Model 1877 "Lightning" and my 1885 Winchester Model 1873 carbine.

45 Colt goodness.

My “US” marked SAA was delivered to the NY
Militia in 1876, according to my Colt letter. It was recalled to Springfield Armory in 1900 to be refurbed for use in Cuba and the Philippines. Been in the family for a while.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
My 4 digit sub 6000 serial 1956 Colt.

nice looking Second Gen Colt,

serial SA5999 or less?

and real MOP's or some of those Jay Scott or similar Faux grips?