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Offline Long Johns Wolf

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RM Army & OT Question
« on: August 25, 2008, 05:41:49 AM »
Hello to the campfire: I have questions regarding 1st gen. Colt RM Armies and Open Tops with Army grip.
# are RMs known with cylinders without gasring?
# are RMs and OTs known with brass trigger-guards?
The background for these questions? I am working on 2 other Centaure conversion projects, namely a RM and an OT.
Thanks for your help.
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Re: RM Army & OT Question
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2008, 10:38:03 AM »
Looking at both Adler's and McDowell's books, neither the Richards or the Richards-Masons had gas rings.

Richards had steel backstraps and brass triggerguards.

R-Ms which had brass or steel triggerguards and steel backstraps.

Opentops with Navy grips had brass backstraps and triggerguards.

Opentops with Army grips had steel backstraps and triggerguards.
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Re: RM Army & OT Question
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2008, 11:53:41 AM »
Flint is correct. And occasionally one will see steel Navy backstraps with a brass TG on the OT but usually if one was steel so was the other. I'm sure that since the Richards conversions used brass TG's that some may have slipped through onto some '60 Army RM's. Remember, with Colt never say never.  ;)
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Offline Long Johns Wolf

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Re: RM Army & OT Question
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2008, 04:54:03 AM »
Fox Creek Kid: can I please use your phrase modified a bit as "Remember, with Belgian Colts never say never" for the Centaure website www.1960nma.org? Of course, you will be cited properly as Fox Creek Kid.
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Re: RM Army & OT Question
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2008, 12:37:44 PM »
No need to cite me, cite the Colt SAA authority John Kopec who said this about Colt.  ;)
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