DaveT, I prefer the ,as I prefer, the ORIGINAL Colt frame style as well, as opposed to the MODIFIED frame that followed. I bought a pair of the BP frame USFAs from Turnbull back when he was finishing up the original DTXXX serial number run around 2011 or so. 7 1/2" 44 WCF blue and case, consecutive numbers. Amazingly only $1200 a piece, don't we wish we could get them for that now. After USFA stopped making their guns, I managed to acquire around a half dozen old Colts, all 44 or 45, made before the change over, mostly beater guns, but all there and unmodified, all for around $1000 or less. Even managed to grab 4 of the cross pin guns for a pair of 38 and 32 WCFs to round it out. Nowadays it seems if it has a BP frame you can automatically figure almost $2000, just because its old and a Colt. Never mind what the prices are on the USFAs, when the price of a Rodeo is more than I've paid for most of my Colts, I just can't justify it anymore. I like to be able to shoot what I own, not admire it.