Colt Glock
Colt Glock
Tell me about the 38 colt Army Special?
I recently bought a 38 colt Army Special revolver. I've shot it at shooting ranges before, and really like it. What is your experiences with it? How does it's power and accuracy compare to other guns, such as a 9mm glock?
The gun shop specifically labeled it as a "38 colt Army".
I suspect you have a US Army Revolver Colt 38 Special M1908, or a civilan copy. After Colt produced enough revolvers to meet it's military contract it made more to sell to civilians.
That is a time tested design, and we really haven't progressed all that much further in revolvers, except we have stainless steel now, or alloy frames to make guns lighter.
Accuracy? It is as accurate as the shooter allows it to be. You won't be hindered by it's accuracy until you are a top ranked competitive shooter.
Power? the 38 special cartridge fires a bullet that is the same size as the 9mm, but as it was designed with older gunpowder, the case is actually larger. It ends up being not quite as powerful as a 9mm, but they are in the same ballpark.
It is definately more powerful than a 380acp, like in a Walther PP, also known as James Bond gun.
If your gun is what you say it is you have a great peice of history. Glocks are a dime a dozen, if someone set out to buy a 38 colt army special, they'd be a long time looking before they came across one.
It should look like this one
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Colt+Army+Special&offset=0
http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2006/01/colt-army-special-range-report.html you can click on Xavier's pictures for bigger versions. Note, that guy magically finds guns that are dirt cheap but then he spends all his free time driving around searching pawn shops, The gas alone he sinks into the hobby probably adds $100 to each gun. No wonder he switched to biking around so much.
if the cylinder release does NOT look like a chess pawn, but just an L shaped protrusion,then it is a M1905
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