Reeder Custom Guns - I’ve never heard anyone really say so

But I never believed Colt (in the USA) ever made the little .22 single actions or any of the Black Powder replicas. They marketed a line of cheesy commemoratives, some terrible little copies of the single shot #3 Derringer but in .22 Short (pot metal barrels were rifled too).

When I was a boy I had a F.I.E just like this Colt commemorative. Gold accents and all. Note the alloy frame. I think it odd the hammer screw and cylinder pin retainer are blue and not gold. Alas, my FIE was so identical that I’d wager they were made by the same consigned factory. I know Colt farmed out several projects. They has a Single shot rifle - that was to die for, ultra fine Sauer bolt guns, and some very nice smaller autos I know made by Astra in Spain.

Just who made Colt SA .22 and BP late revolvers? Uberti?!

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Always just assumed it was made by Colt. It's a great gun and I wish that quality was available today...

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The commemoratives mostly were alloy cylinder frames with a paint/baked on finish. I think they did make some later steel case color frame fixed sight .22 also. Again very high quality. A friend just paid $600 used for a .22 Frontier model. It was nice.

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single shot that is supposed to be so fancy?! Maybe its just so rare. I've never even seen one.

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Will weigh in...

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The colt-sharps was a copy of the hammerless Sharps-Borchart made from 1878-1881 with modern steels.

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that would put that Colt-Sharps at $4500 which is about the market on those things! I did read some on their history and links to P.O Ackley. Interesting.

If you see one in a pawn shop for $1000 it might be worth snatching up.

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action. I know there were less than 1000 of them made. They all came with a Leupold scope . They had set triggers. I only saw a couple. One was a magnum, don't remember whether 7mm or 300. A friend had one on 50-70. Nice rifles and I imagine they bring big bucks today.

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I worked in a gun store in the mid 1970's. One of the guns we sold was the Colt-sharps. I worked there about a year. We only had one in 7mm Rem. mag. It was a copy of the last gun sharps made. No external hammer. If I remember correct about $900, Rem 700 $250, very well made.

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As they were made to emulate centerfire versions. There is no way Colt was able to compete will Ruger's Single-Six .22. I have one of the new Heritage 16" .22 single actions with a rifle butt stock. I am thinking about trying to make one using a Ruger Single-Six. It would require a custom barrel and a butt stock like the Heritage has.

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Scouts, Peacemakers and New Frontiers in .22 caliber. "Subsequent printings of this book were published to keep the student/collector up to date on the most recent variants [image] being produced at the Colt factory."

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to build their black powder revolvers. they started with the serial numbers that Colt ended up with nearly a hundred years before that. They were nice guns. We sold several in the gun shop I was a partner in. They came in a nice blue presentation box. I have no idea what condition the guns were as I am not a BP shooter.

We also sold a ton of those little single shot derringers, the Lord and Lady and such. They came in nice little presentation boxes. Most were two toned, gold and black or silver and black and so on. They were somewhere around $100 for the singles and a little under $200 for the sets.

The Colt single actions were a constant seller and as far as I know they were made at the Colt factory. There were no import stamps on them that I ever saw.

I bought Colleen a Colt Sauer rifle in 300 Win mag. It was the deluxe model with the fancy stock and a smooth action that you could work with your little finger. I paid somewhere around $3000 for it. It was made by Sauer in conjunction with Colt. She still has it and used it last year in Africa.

I’ve never heard anyone really say so

I have a really nice Colt New Frontier 22 LR/Magnum...

The Adj. Sight guns look much better quality

Huey you know anything of that Colt-Sharps

Nope, that's beyond my knowledge. Maybe JT...

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If a new M700 was bringing $1200 today

the Colt Sharps was a pretty rare falling block type

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The .22 New Frontiers were much nicer looking

That would be great!

Check out Don Wilkerson's book

somewhere in the late 70s Colt had an agreement with Uberti

IMPORT STAMPS! They'd have to have them made abroad!

like I said I never saw any import stamps on any that we