Colt New Service "this is long"

Posted by tarli from hwing-61.saultc.on.ca on September 28, 1999 at 09:29:07:

I recently found a list of guns for sale and among them was a colt new service. This got my attention and as the seller wants to sell them all I called a friend that I believed might be interested in the package in hopes that I could buy the colt from him. (His daughter just got her fac and is looking for a few guns to begin with). He told me to meet him at the range and bring the list along with "some iron an brass". We shot for a while and then he told me he had something that would interest me, he pulled out... A colt new service in .455 that same as the one that is for sale. He'd brought a few rounds for it (it's hard to find) and allowed me to put a few rounds down range. I found it shot high and right but a little kentucky windage fixed things quick (it has fixed sights). He warned me that the hole for the primer is "ballooned" in the .455 brass as opposed to my .357 and won't take high pressure loads but he had a way around that. You can take a .45 auto rim and machine the rim down to the same width as that of the .455 and then you have a brass of the same dimensions with a thicker more solid back. I thought that this might be usefull for those of you that shoot .455 (the webley). I also thought that it brings up an issue in the world of debate on his guns. I live in Canada where handguns aren't overly common and I found two colt new services in .455 with in two days. Could it be that Indy's in TOD was chambered in .455 and therefore the webley would make a bit more sence??? I'm not stating this only as something that the experts in the forum might consider. Cheers all.

Tarli

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Colt New Service Michaelson 10:25:15 9/28/99 (2)
- Regarding your loadings statement (followup) Michaelson 10:54:42 9/28/99 (1)
  - Re: Regarding your loadings statement (followup) Tarli 16:04:05 9/29/99 (0)

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:      I recently found a list of guns for sale and among them was a colt new service.  This got my attention and as the seller wants to sell them all I called a friend that I believed might be interested in the package in hopes that I could buy the colt from him.  (His daughter just got her fac and is looking for a few guns to begin with).  He told me to meet him at the range and bring the list along with "some iron an brass".  We shot for a while and then he told me he had something that would interest me, he pulled out...  A colt new service in .455  that same as the one that is for sale.  He'd brought a few rounds for it (it's hard to find) and allowed me to put a few rounds down range.  I found it shot high and right but a little kentucky windage fixed things quick (it has fixed sights).  He warned me that the hole for the primer is "ballooned" in the .455 brass as opposed to my .357 and won't take high pressure loads but he had a way around that.  You can take a .45 auto rim and machine the rim down to the same width as that of the .455 and then you have a brass of the same dimensions with a thicker more solid back.  I thought that this might be usefull for those of you that shoot .455 (the webley).  I also thought that it brings up an issue in the world of debate on his guns.  I live in Canada where handguns aren't overly common and I found two colt new services in .455 with in two days.  Could it be that Indy's in TOD was chambered in .455 and therefore the webley would make a bit more sence???  I'm not stating this only as something that the experts in the forum might consider.  Cheers all.

: Tarli

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