Colt Saa 3rd Generation Serial Numbers
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They weren’t considering the new phenomenon of television. Anyone who lived through the decades of the ‘50s and had a TV must remember the vast assortment of western programs. I certainly do. There were far too many to detail here but it is safe to say in the holster of each and every one of those “little-screen” stars there resided a Colt SAA revolver. In fact I can’t remember ever seeing either a good-guy or bad-guy with anything but a Peacemaker.
Nov 21, 2018 Its a model P1850 3rd generation Single Action Army in blue and walnut with a 5.5’ barrel, chambered in 45 colt. Serial number searches on Colt’s website put this six-shooter’s birthday around. Third Generation serial numbers started over again at 80,000SA, leaving a gap of 5,000-plus after discontinuance of the 2nd Generation. My first 3rd Generation SAA had a number about 500 into that 80,000SA range. Happily not all 3rd Generation SAAs were as poorly put together as mine. Some I saw in the late 1970s were finely made handguns. These Second Generation Colt Single Action Army revolvers were produced from 1956 to 1974 and carried serial numbers in the range of 0001SA to 73,205SA. Due to the popularity of the television show, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Colt introduced the aforementioned Buntline Special as a Second generation offering from 1957 to 1974. Colt’s Manufacturing Company - firearms, handguns, pistols, rifles, revolvers. Oct 24, 2019 I just purchased a NIB Colt SAA with a serial number SXXXXXA stamped in the bottom of the frame just ahead of the trigger guard assembly. I went to the Colt web page to try to find the year of manufacture and it comes back as unable to find. Just out of curiosity, I instead typed XXXXXSA and the web site found the year it was built.
No wonder then that the firearms collecting fraternity and just about every TV watching kid focused on the Colt SAA revolver almost totally to the exclusion of every other Old West handgun. No wonder also that keen minds at Colt saw sales opportunities, and therefore in 1956 reintroduced the SAA. There were virtually no changes in the model from the last ones made circa 1940. In fact Colt merely pulled the tooling from storage to begin production. However, instead of taking up where serial numbers left off 15 years before they started again plus added an SA suffix as in 0001SA.Colt Saa 3rd Generation Serial Numbers
Naturally the initial chambering offered was .45 Colt, but in the latter half of the 20th century gun buyers’ tastes in calibers had changed. The popular but obsolete .32, .38 and .44 WCFs (Winchester Centerfires) were not offered. Instead, later in 1956 .38 Special became a standard Peacemaker caliber. Interestingly, in 1st Generation production, only 25 had been made as .38 S&W Specials with another 82 made as .38 Colt Specials. Those were merely different names for the same cartridge.
Skeeter said there were changes made but the basic SAA was the same, i.e. three standard barrel lengths of 4 ¾”, 5 ½” and 7 ½”, finishes of full nickel or blue, with color case hardened frame, and grips of hard rubber. Grips on nickeled guns were walnut, with Colt’s Rampant Colt medallions.Colt Saa 3rd Generation 44 Special
The changes were incorporated in an effort by Colt to keep prices down. One new change was a pressed-in cylinder pin bushing instead of the removable ones used in 1st and 2nd Generation cylinders. Also the ratchet at the rear of the cylinders was re-shaped, which also necessitated a different shape on the rotating hand. And for some unknown reason, the pitch of the barrel’s threads was changed from the 20 threads per inch (TPI) as used on 1st and 2nd Generation SAAs to 24 TPI for these new ones.
Toward the end of 2nd Generation production Colt had begun using some investment cast parts, but the frames continued to be forged. The introductory caliber for 3rd Generation SAAs was .45 Colt, but .357 Magnum came along by the end of 1976.
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They weren’t considering the new phenomenon of television. Anyone who lived through the decades of the ‘50s and had a TV must remember the vast assortment of western programs. I certainly do. There were far too many to detail here but it is safe to say in the holster of each and every one of those “little-screen” stars there resided a Colt SAA revolver. In fact I can’t remember ever seeing either a good-guy or bad-guy with anything but a Peacemaker.
Nov 21, 2018 Its a model P1850 3rd generation Single Action Army in blue and walnut with a 5.5’ barrel, chambered in 45 colt. Serial number searches on Colt’s website put this six-shooter’s birthday around. Third Generation serial numbers started over again at 80,000SA, leaving a gap of 5,000-plus after discontinuance of the 2nd Generation. My first 3rd Generation SAA had a number about 500 into that 80,000SA range. Happily not all 3rd Generation SAAs were as poorly put together as mine. Some I saw in the late 1970s were finely made handguns. These Second Generation Colt Single Action Army revolvers were produced from 1956 to 1974 and carried serial numbers in the range of 0001SA to 73,205SA. Due to the popularity of the television show, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Colt introduced the aforementioned Buntline Special as a Second generation offering from 1957 to 1974. Colt’s Manufacturing Company - firearms, handguns, pistols, rifles, revolvers. Oct 24, 2019 I just purchased a NIB Colt SAA with a serial number SXXXXXA stamped in the bottom of the frame just ahead of the trigger guard assembly. I went to the Colt web page to try to find the year of manufacture and it comes back as unable to find. Just out of curiosity, I instead typed XXXXXSA and the web site found the year it was built.
No wonder then that the firearms collecting fraternity and just about every TV watching kid focused on the Colt SAA revolver almost totally to the exclusion of every other Old West handgun. No wonder also that keen minds at Colt saw sales opportunities, and therefore in 1956 reintroduced the SAA. There were virtually no changes in the model from the last ones made circa 1940. In fact Colt merely pulled the tooling from storage to begin production. However, instead of taking up where serial numbers left off 15 years before they started again plus added an SA suffix as in 0001SA.Colt Saa 3rd Generation Serial Numbers
Naturally the initial chambering offered was .45 Colt, but in the latter half of the 20th century gun buyers’ tastes in calibers had changed. The popular but obsolete .32, .38 and .44 WCFs (Winchester Centerfires) were not offered. Instead, later in 1956 .38 Special became a standard Peacemaker caliber. Interestingly, in 1st Generation production, only 25 had been made as .38 S&W Specials with another 82 made as .38 Colt Specials. Those were merely different names for the same cartridge.
Skeeter said there were changes made but the basic SAA was the same, i.e. three standard barrel lengths of 4 ¾”, 5 ½” and 7 ½”, finishes of full nickel or blue, with color case hardened frame, and grips of hard rubber. Grips on nickeled guns were walnut, with Colt’s Rampant Colt medallions.Colt Saa 3rd Generation 44 Special
The changes were incorporated in an effort by Colt to keep prices down. One new change was a pressed-in cylinder pin bushing instead of the removable ones used in 1st and 2nd Generation cylinders. Also the ratchet at the rear of the cylinders was re-shaped, which also necessitated a different shape on the rotating hand. And for some unknown reason, the pitch of the barrel’s threads was changed from the 20 threads per inch (TPI) as used on 1st and 2nd Generation SAAs to 24 TPI for these new ones.
Toward the end of 2nd Generation production Colt had begun using some investment cast parts, but the frames continued to be forged. The introductory caliber for 3rd Generation SAAs was .45 Colt, but .357 Magnum came along by the end of 1976.
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