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To: atc23
It's a Colt Army in .38.

The lands are .357 apart.

4 posted on 05/14/2016 5:38:53 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Is modern .38 SPL safe to fire through it? I wonder . . - as long as I avoid +P? I thought the old stuff was easier on the frame and action. The customer service gal at Colt told me based on the serial number, that the date of manufacture was somewhere between 1917 and 1923


8 posted on 05/14/2016 5:49:02 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Mariner

“It’s a Colt Army in .38.
The lands are .357 apart.”

I agree with that. If it was a police positive it would say so on the barrel.


14 posted on 05/14/2016 5:59:07 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Mariner

Did they call it the ‘New Army’ ? I think that’s the one with those black grips.


25 posted on 05/14/2016 6:25:07 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Mariner

“The lands are .357” apart.”

Nope, they’re 0.348-0.350” apart.

The grooves are 0.357”, though.


27 posted on 05/14/2016 6:29:24 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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