A COLT for a change.

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RogerC

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Stumbled across a real minty Colt Trooper MKIII today.
Came with box and papers. Looks unshot. Only a cylinder turn line on the bluing. Checkering on the grips is sharp
and no marks anywhere.

After I picked it up, I knew I had to have it.

It's got a fantastic trigger. The Colt stacky feel, but gradual and very smooth. The bluing reminds me of a Python, only much blacker.

The serial # is JYD26x. I think it is from 1972 or 73.


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Fits the Jordan holster I already had, perfectly.

The only other Colt DA revo I've ever owned was a 6 inch King Cobra. I like this gun a helluva lot more.

A nice departure from my usual S&W's.

It is like a Python with a different barrel and finish.
I'm pretty impressed with it. I hope it shoots!
 
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RogerC bought a C***! Ohmigawd! Lookit what you fellers have done at the 629 thread! Y'all drove away a potential *&* buyer who bought a C***!

All kidding aside, enjoy your Trooper and may it give you many years of pleasure. From that holster, it appears to be a police trade in. Any clues from the dealer (or markings on the holster) as to which agency had that gun?
 
Hah, that's one of my Jordan holsters. I just stuck it in the pic cuz I figured these guns probably did ride around in a few of them.

If it's been shot, it's been shot VERY little.


p.s. I've got Rugers, Dan Wessons, Berettas and a few others too!
 
Wow, that's a nice one. They don't make them like that anymore, especially not for a utility gun. Those things are large enough, too, that you won't have any concern about firing magnums all the time.
 
Well you sure fooled me. Seeing that holster made me think it came with the gun and was carried by some officer or deputy. Don't have anything like it and my first holster was a Hoyt break front. Still have it to this day and won't let it go as it fits my Ruger or Python.
 
Enjoy, that's one of Colt's best.
If you want to improve the trigger, Brownell's carry spring kits. You get more reduction by replacing the trigger spring than the hammer spring.

Two watch out's: Most Mark 3's can be dry fired forever without trouble, but occasionally a firing pin will break. When it does, it HAS to go back to the factory for replacement, since it takes a press and special support blocks to do the job. Trying to drive the pin and recoil plate out with a punch will ruin the frame.

Second, the Mark 3 was the first gun made that is intended for defect parts to be just replaced. In general parts cannot be repaired or adjusted.

With that in mind, the Colt Mark 3 may be the strongest mid-frame revolver ever made. Now you need to get a .22LR version.
 
I'm jealous! I had a 6" Mk III once. Sold it, along with a 2 1/2" Diamondback and a couple others I won't bring up. It's always the Colt revolvers I miss most. :(
 
Really nice looking gun there. I saw several on Gunbroker while looking at 586s. I went with the 586 because I just had to have one but those Colts sure were tempting. Depending upon how things go with my Police Positive Special (my first Colt) I may just have to get one too.

Keep us posted (keep up the temptation- I'll be buying another gun in about a month).
 
In my admittedly slightly less than humble opinion, the Mark III Trooper was one of the best revolvers Colt ever built. I like Pythons better, primarily for their looks and relative scarcity, but if you invest a good action job in a Trooper and another in a Python, I defy anyone to tell the difference--and I think the Mark III Trooper is actually a slightly stronger mechanism, too.
 
Except for the "stacking" feel, it is about like a Smith. Click, click, BOOM. The cylinder locks up way before hammerfall.

The stacking isn't really bad, just different. If you pull REAL slow, it is more apparent. If you pull deliberate, and not real fast, it is real smooth.

I took it along when I went for a ride this morning. I had a few pop cans to shoot at. I had NO trouble at all hitting them at 40 feet or so, firing DA. The SA pull is real sweet. Just like a Smith. Although the lock time seems a tad slower.

I pumped a few cylinders of .38 semi-wadcutters through it. Being a BIG revolver made recoil almost non existent. I found that I could "double tap" the cans with ease.

It rides in the Jordan holster like it belongs there.

I'll have to shoot some paper with it and see how it stacks up against my Model 19, which is my "most accurate" gun, the gun I can hit best with.

After it's first thorough cleaning, I cannot find a blemish or mark on it. This thing had to have lived most of it's life on a shelf. The bluing is truly beautiful.

All in all, I'm pretty impressed.

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