Wow!. VERY nice.
I am green with envy!
Thanks very much. Glad you like them. Envy? Don't be. Seriously. If you look around nice engraving can be had at a reasonable price. Just doubles the cost of your gun. Colt's can be had for less than USFA guns for good reason. Only the ivory is up there in price and now something a person has to REALLY want.
Kinda funny story from this weekend. Been shooting the guns for a few weeks now. But they are a decade old by the serial numbers. Haven't been finished like this until just recently. So I show up at out local SASS match ready and willing with the "new" guns. Half way through the match, when everyone was by now hot and tired, first question as I am re-setting steel is "those real Colt's?" Answer is "yes". Next up, in a hail of quick questions from a few in my posse, "that real ivory? Sure looks like it?"
I'm thinking "real cowboys shoot Colts...and itta be a mortal sin, damned to yee to HELL if you added plastic to a Colt's", but I smile and bite my tongue
Next up is, "them had to cost a pretty penny!" I'm a Scotsman so I pinch a penny till she'll bleed.....so my flippant answer...was, "they are family guns, so they were cheap". Guns mean a lot more to me than money. You saw some of that story/reasoning on the blog. And in truth it really wasn't "my money" that paid for them. That comment sucked a few more of the posse in to the unloading table to check the serial numbers. Just how old are those black powder frames? Markings intentionally say about 1895 to 1910 if you know what to look for. Serial numbers say 2004. But many/most of us old pards need readers these days to decipher serial numbers.
Not sure what everyone went away with from the conversation...other than I really like fancy guns and can't shoot a handgun fer shit, having 5 handgun misses for the day! My new motto is "life is too short to shoot ugly guns" Clan mottos is "I bide me time". Worth the 60 year wait for these blasters. If I'd known how much I would enjoy these guns I'd have done it all 40 years ago! The rifle I built and had engraved 25 years ago and have enjoyed every minute of owning it.