youngunz4life
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memories of a different time. I like the revolver
1983 Colt Detective
- Thread starter DadsColt38
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DadsColt38
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New stocks
These are carved in Thailand from native rosewood. The finish is beautiful but I did have to take a knife to the interior cuts to trim off excess to get a perfect fit to the butt. The feel is night and day from the original stocks. It now has has perfect control and a place for that pinky that was waving around under the gun.
There are a bunch of different styles available on eBay for around 43 bucks.
These are carved in Thailand from native rosewood. The finish is beautiful but I did have to take a knife to the interior cuts to trim off excess to get a perfect fit to the butt. The feel is night and day from the original stocks. It now has has perfect control and a place for that pinky that was waving around under the gun.
There are a bunch of different styles available on eBay for around 43 bucks.
Aguila Blanca
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See post #7.DadsColt38 said:
Those in your photo are not Colt stocks, those are aftermarket.
warningshot
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I wouldn't dought for a second that those are the orginal stocks Colt put on from the factory in 1983. 1975, No. 1978, No. '83...better than a good chance. But then I thought that the word, 'patato', had an 'e' at the end so what do I know?
DadsColt38
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Just to clarify, the stocks in post one are original to the gun. My question as to "correct stocks" referred only to fit to the short D frame of the pictured AM rosewood stocks.
Aguila Blanca
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Sorry. To me (and probably most member of any gun forum) the term "correct" means "what the manufacturer put on the gun when they shipped it.) The best way to ask if something will fit is probably "Will these fit my gun?"DadsColt38 said:
DadsColt38
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Sorry to have confused you. It was probably silly of me to assume an actual picture of the aftermarket stocks in the question was sufficient to avoid this kind of misunderstanding.
The wood that D illustrated came on my DS in 1981.
That SHOULD be what came on the 1983 gun, but with Colt using old parts here & there over the years it's hard to make absolute statements about originality in some cases.
That was the last wood grip configuration before Colt switched to rubber.
Denis
That SHOULD be what came on the 1983 gun, but with Colt using old parts here & there over the years it's hard to make absolute statements about originality in some cases.
That was the last wood grip configuration before Colt switched to rubber.
Denis