Stag Colts

[Highlander999]

I thought I'd post my pair of Stag Handled Colt's.  The one on top is a Third Generation SASS Colt that I added Sambar Stag Grips to after getting it.  The lower one is a First Generation Colt made in 1911, with Stag Grips that have been on it a long time.  The First Generation Colt is from a friend of mine (he was a wild horse detective with the BLM and carried this gun when horseback).

Anyway, both are great shooters. (I have one Third Generation with Ivory Grips from Nutmeg I'll post when I can find a photo of it).

[Sagebrush Burns]

Nice stags on both of those!

[King Medallion]

Beautiful! I love stag grips. Here are mine,
Colt and Uberti

Remingtons

[Shenandoah]

I have a 3td generation and I have contacted Nutmeg about getting Ivory grips. How do you like the Ivory grips?

[Tascosa Joe]

I have had Nutmeg install 3 sets.  They do good work.

[Highlander999]

I have had Nutmeg install two ivory grips on my Turnbull Open Range revolvers, and they did a great job.  I also have a third generation Colt that I bought with bark ivory that Nutmeg did about 20 years ago.  Also, great work.

[Highlander999]

Here are two photos, one of each side of my Third Generation Colt with Nutmeg Ivory Grips:

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[Highlander999]

And here are my Turnbull Open Range (Class A Engraving) that I had Jim Alaimo (Nutmeg Sports) put ivory on for me.  He didn't have any "bark ivory" but there is some graining in them so they don't look like white plastic.  Very well fitted and look great on these two revolvers:

[Shenandoah]

Those are some good looking grips. I'm going to send mine off next week for a set.

[pawneefork]

Not to "roach the buzz" of the stag OP, but in all my reserach fo old Colts, I saw wood, hard rubber, ivory, and -- most often as an exotic material -- MOP, but I never saw stag on an SAA until the 50s Westerns dreamed it up.  Am I misremembering...?  It seems logical, being a plentiful, cheap, and legal material, but it appears to have been rarely done pre-20th century.  I could be wrong.  

Stag looks great on 1911s and S&W N frames though...

[Highlander999]

Well Pawnee, I agree with you to an extent...  But perusing the book "THE PEACEMAKERS" by R.L. Wilson, photo on page 179, and caption on page 178, is a photo of Harvey Logan, aka Kid Curry's Engrave Colt Single Action serial number 147144, with Stag Grips.  Allegedly it was stolen from a Colt salesman, between 1901 and 1904.

So, period 1873 to 1900, I find no other photos of early guns with stag grips.