Colt New Frontier SAA

[medic15al]

Finally Picked it up. 4 3/4in 45 Colt

My Pietta and Uberti have better machining than the Colt.

Heavy chatter on base of Hammer, inside of frame where hammer sits, AND if I tighten the hammer screw pin tight it wants to bind a bit. Heavy mainspring.

I'm about to purchase some stones to see about smoothing it up by removing the chatter and polishing. Has the fixed cylinder bushing.

[Abilene]

When was it made?

[medic15al]

I don't know. Colt SN# look-up returns no result. SN is 124xxNF

[willy]

That's a shame,,,I been looking for a SAA and the only thing in my price range is the 3rd generations,,And they are some sad looking guns when compared to Uberti and Pietta.

[Major 2]

124xxNF  NF Suffix

Judging by your SS#  your gun was produced in the late 1988-89 or early in 1990 , this was during the 4 year labor strike with UAW. I'm not to surprised records for SS# are sketchy during this era.
Production of the New Frontier ended in 1992.
The non removable Cylinder bushing is another "Tell" to earlier 3th. Gens.
Colt reintroduced the removable base pin bushing in March 2003.

After 20 year production gap the New Frontier was re introduced in 2012 with new serial numbers. NF prefix starting at NF20000
The NF is a prefix.

[medic15al]

That's a shame,,,I been looking for a SAA and the only thing in my price range is the 3rd generations,,And they are some sad looking guns when compared to Uberti and Pietta.

Yeah, I love Cowboy guns and want a Colt just to say I have a real Colt SAA, But this is unacceptable for the name and the reputation the Company once had.   

[medic15al]

124xxNF  NF Suffix

Judging by your SS#  your gun was produced in the late 1988-89 or early in 1990 , this was during the 4 year labor strike with UAW. I'm not to surprised records for SS# are sketchy during this era.
Production of the New Frontier ended in 1992.
The non removable Cylinder bushing is another "Tell" to earlier 3th. Gens.
Colt reintroduced the removable base pin bushing in March 2003.

After 20 year production gap the New Frontier was re introduced in 2012 with new serial numbers. NF prefix starting at NF20000
The NF is a prefix.

Thanks Major for the info. I had a Colt Agent snub made during this time, a rough finished and almost parkerized finish. It took a fair bit of gunsmithy polishing to get it shootable.

In contrast to a 1967 made Agent with factory hammer shroud, Tyler_T grip adapter and trigger shoe it was a sweet shooter and my "I don't carry on the ambulance" carry gun.