Finally Bought My First Colt Single Action Clone

by Remington40x , SE PA, Friday, December 06, 2013, 14:51 (4010 days ago)

After living sixty-plus years without ever owning a Colt Single Action in either original or clone form, I have finally succumbed to the disease. My local gun shop had an Armi San Marco Cimmaron in near unfired condition - no marks on the recoil plate and barely any indication of a cylinder drag line. It's the black powder style frame. Case colors were 100%, as were the grips; the blue is in the 98% plus range. I'd have had no trouble resisting it, except that it was in .32-20, a cartridge for which I have considerable affection. So now it resides at my house.

I blame JT and Doc O for this decision to yield to temptation. MattPA sold me three of their books on Colt single actions and I'd just finished the third one when I stumbled across this piece. So be careful about buying books. They put ideas in your head that can cost you money.