Just showing off some more of my guns.
Picked up this Colt Frontier Scout from Gunbroker back in 2015. According to the auction it's from 1958. I haven't confirmed that. At the time I was looking to buy a single action 22LR. Either a Ruger Single Six, Bear Cat, or one those cheap Heritage Rough Rider revolvers. Seemed like every tiny little gun shop I walked into had a Rough Rider for sale.
I already have a S&W M17 22LR revolver and wanted a single action to go with it. I find I enjoy putting a large handful of 22LR in my shirt pocket and plinking at targets of opportunity around my land. Far easier to load a revolver than mess with magazines. The finish on this Frontier Scout is worn but it still has the 4 click hammer and is fun, lightweight, little shooter. This one only has the 22LR cylinder, some come with a spare 22 mag cylinder.
I believe this was Colt's not so successful attempt to compete with Ruger.
I gave $276 + transfer for it. These are pictures from the auction. The finish in real life is black / missing vs the purple Ruger hue shown:
Next up is my 1st Uberti 1873 Hombre. Back in 2012 a seller on gunbroker had these brand new for a fixed, buy it now, price of $250. He had a bunch of them in 357 magnum and 45 Colt. Other than seeing these in the Cabela's / Bass Pro catalogs and thinking they were overpriced for such an ugly finished gun, I didn't know much about them. I bought this on a whim.
Hindsight being 20/20, I should've bought 2 in each caliber. $250 was steal of deal. I read later that CAS clubs were buying these using them as loners for new shooters to the sport. It's another one of my favorite guns and I'll frequently wear it around my property. Can't say that I've ever shot it on paper, mostly use 38 special in it against my steel gong.
My most recent purchase, as of just a couple weeks ago, is another 357mag Uberti, an El Patron Competition. I've been wanting another 357 Uberti with the goal of shooting Cowboy Action some day. The dealer that has the current low prices on the Uberti Walkers also has 45 Colt El Patrons at a reasonable price that I've been real tempted by.
I figured I'd just tale a peek at the rest of the El Patron's on gunbroker and found this $200 "bump and dent" special. Has some holster wear plus is missing it's ejector housing, ejector rod, spring, and screw. Looking at Taylor's - that about $75 worth of parts. Googling around it seem the ejector rod housing screw is known to break on these. I believe Brownell's sells a hardened screw. I image, that's what happened to this one and the owner pawned it. Should be an easy fix.
Pics are from the auction and the gun is currently sitting at my dealer. I'm not sure if this has 4 hammer clicks or 3 but for $200, I couldn't pass it. Serial # is UB4XX4.
Feel free to show off any of your guns.
