Even so, at 99 percent, to a collector it is easily worth $800 or possibly more. As the saying goes, the only thing missing is the box. If I hadn’t known it had previously been shot, I would have rated it NRA New, as virtually 100 percent of the finish is present.
COLT WOODSMAN MAGAZINE SERIES
This pristine Third Series Target Model was shipped on June 21, 1974. Two years ago a 1938-era, 95-percent Woodsman Target with original magazine, box, and sales receipt sold for $850 at Wally Beinfield’s Las Vegas Antique Arms show. The price back then for a Woodsman Target was $84.50. After I got a notch cut in the proper location it functions flawlessly during firing with my second series. It does not have the notch for the push button magazine catch of the second series. This magazine appears to be made for the late third series woodsman. Stocks were black plastic, but beginning in 1960 Colt offered thumbrest walnut stocks at no extra cost. Comments about Colt Magazine Colt Woodsman Model S 22 Long Rifle 10-Round Steel Blue. It introduced the economical, fixed-sight Challenger and Huntsman Models, along with other variations. The Third Series, from 1955 to the end of production in 1977, had the magazine release relocated to the frame’s bottom. Designers and engineers at Colt re-proportioned the grip (with Coltwood or brown plastic stocks) with a higher arch, for better controllability, and they added a weighted-barrel Match Target Model to the line.
22LR pistol I have fired) - not a Woodsman - but the two pistols are very, very similar. I actually bought one of these for my Colt Challenger (which is to date the most reliable. These guns constitute the First Series, which ran until 1947.įrom 1947 to 1955, the Second Series featured Sport and Target Models, with Target barrels shortened to 6 inches, and saw a side-mounted magazine release. Comments about Colt Magazine Colt Woodsman Model S 22 Long Rifle 10-Round Steel Blue. In 1933 Colt introduced a Sport Model with 4½-inch barrel, and from 1938 until 1944 the company made a heavier-barreled Match Target with a “Bull’s Eye” target logo on the frame. Here is a Colt model 1908 Hammerless semi-auto vest pocket pistol in 25 ACP caliber with a 2' barrel. Retaining its adjustable sights, it came with a two-tone, 10-round-capacity magazine retained by a European-style heel release. Colt Model 1908 Hammerless Vest Pocket Pistol in 25 ACP w/ Box. Initially sporting a 6 5⁄8-inch barrel, adjustable sights, blued finish, checkered walnut stocks and a profile reminiscent of the Luger (and later, the Ruger Mark I), this pistol was renamed the Woodsman in 1927. 22 Target Model”-hardly indicative of what would become a 62-year reign of a gun that started many a boy on a lifetime of shooting. When introduced in 1915, it was named the “Colt Automatic Pistol, caliber. Browning, assisted by Colt employees George H. 22 Long Rifle, semi-automatic handgun that evokes images of bouncing tin cans or dropping rabbits on the run? This is yet another classic firearm from John M. With the Third Woodsman Series, the magazine release was moved back to the heel of the butt.
Could there be a more fitting name than “Woodsman” for a.
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