Some Colt Clones

AT SOME INT during the mid-1950s, I became involved in a gunfight with some neighbourhood kids. My parents spotted me m dodging bullets while trying o shoot b k at my assailants with my pointed finger. My dad was hastily sent to town with the terse instruction to “Buy you son a cap-gun this minute!” That afternoon, with my new toy in hand, I managed to hold my own against the outlaws.

When comparing my puny cap-firing revolver with pictures of the Colt Single Action Army (SAA), I found my toy seriously lacking. Much later, I learned that the original ‘P’ model of 1873 was produced for issue to the United States Cavalry, and as such was used until the early 1890s, when new developments in military firearms caused the ‘Peacemaker’ to fall from favour. It soon became the sidearm of preference for civilians on both sides of the law, rising to fame throughout the West. It was eventually described by many authors as the most famous handgun in the world. But